My college logic professor warned us students to look out for 'arguments from authority'. It seems that creationists could gain the political clout to get into our public schools, as they have done in some backward conservative states, and persuade the teachers & kids(future scientists) to throw out the scientific-method, or at least water it down quite a bit. Dr. Sagan wrote about this sort of influence in our educational & political systems in his book; "The Demon Haunted World", where he argues for very high standards of evidence when scientists do their work. I presume you have read his books. It seems to me that one example of this "reworking" involves lowering standards of evidence in the minds of young future scientists. I can just hear the thoughts of some creationists as they say to themselves, "If we could infiltrate the schools, and get the kids to believe that hard evidence doesn't matter all that much when inquiring about Nature, then we can easily persuade the kids to believe God does it all." That is how I & my former creationist friends thought. As to the notion that trained/degree'd scientists are all out there attempting to consiously disuade everybody that God has nothing to do with anything, I think is quite against the spirit of scientific inquiry. Why? Because I still remember Mr. Komark, my 7th grade physical science teacher say, "...scientists must be open to evidence & new ideas." That is distinctly opposed to the 'set in stone', absolutist statements of creationists who would like all the rest of us to believe the crap that science conspires against belief in God.
[This message has been edited by Prozacman, 12-31-2003]
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