Re: [asa] Building a flagellum step by step

And how science quickly responded to correct itself. If only ID or YEC
could be so graceful. Do you think ID would have noticed the problems
with the paper? Do you think ID will contribute to our scientific
knowledge?
Science before politics, now that's a true sacrifice...

On 4/25/07, Iain Strachan <igd.strachan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rich,
>
> There is an amusing irony here. A few months back I gave, on request, a
> presentation to my church house-group a presentation on the
> Evolution/Creation/ID controversy. I had to tread carefully because three
> of the members of the group are YEC-leaning and the rest aren't. However, I
> did make my view clear, that so-called "creation science" was for the most
> part just a case of wishful thinking. Lest it be seen that I was just
> bashing creationists, I pointed out that a lot of science was a case of
> wishful thinking, and that the more you wanted a thing to be true the less
> careful you were about the controls on your research. I gave the "Cold
> Fusion" fiasco as an example. Here a lot of money was wasted at Harwell
> labs, where I used to work, attempting to replicate Pons and Fleishmann's
> results. If P&F hadn't been so excited about the prospect of solving the
> world's energy needs maybe that money could have been saved.
>
> But it now seems ironic to me that there is now an embarrassing example of
> what was perhaps wishful thinking in the publication of this "flashy" result
> in a peer reviewed journal.
>
> Iain
>
>

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