Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Modern-Day Galileos
Steve Renner, president of the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center, says that "modern-day Galileos" are being persecuted because they question the Darwinian paradigm.
We find it interesting that these "modern-day Galileos" draw their support from the very people who deny that the Earth revolves around the sun.
We know that climate scientists have been prevented from speaking by the Bush administration. We also know that a 24-year-old Bush political commissar at NASA censored climate scientists there. Chris Mooney has documented many more examples of the repression of science and scientists by these "modern-day Galileos" and their sponsors in The Republican War on Science.
But, so far as we know, our "modern-day Galileos" have yet to be placed under house arrest or shown the Inquisition's instruments of torture.
We find it interesting that these "modern-day Galileos" draw their support from the very people who deny that the Earth revolves around the sun.
We know that climate scientists have been prevented from speaking by the Bush administration. We also know that a 24-year-old Bush political commissar at NASA censored climate scientists there. Chris Mooney has documented many more examples of the repression of science and scientists by these "modern-day Galileos" and their sponsors in The Republican War on Science.
But, so far as we know, our "modern-day Galileos" have yet to be placed under house arrest or shown the Inquisition's instruments of torture.
