Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science by Grant John

Author:Grant, John [Grant, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Facts, Figures & Fun
Published: 2012-09-16T22:00:00+00:00

* This is the same impulse that fuels many a crank theorist: orthodox scientists are too thick to have thought of the possibility that, say, the universe is made of vegetables – a hypothesis proposed by the German cult Vegetaria Universa in the 1960s.

* He also said that the sun was not old enough – see page 83.

* Of course, the vast majority of Jews, Christians and Muslims are intelligent enough to have worked their way around this theological dilemma.

* Life exists at every level of complexity from the simplest “animalcules” to the most complex creature of all, the human; beyond humankind lie the angels and God, while below the “animalcules” lie inanimate matter, such as fossils. Each of these levels could be viewed as an essential link of a continuous chain.

* Ironically, Steno faced stronger criticism from other scientists than he did from the clergy, since his ideas flew in the face of the established theory of fossils.

* The book was written anonymously by Dean Kenyon and Percival Davis. Author Kenyon insists that the book’s thrust and motivation are purely towards better science; his co-author, Davis, is a little franker: “Of course my motives were religious. There’s no question about it.”

† This was an uncanny echo of the difficulty Williams Jennings Bryan had, during the Scopes Trial, in persuading Creationist geologists to appear on his behalf.

* For an account of this fiasco, see for example my book Discarded Science (2006); a far more exhaustive discussion can be found in Ronald L. Numbers’s The Creationists (1992).

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