Re: [asa] Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution

There's a small point I'd add to Moorad's observation here.

As I've said before, I personally am very at home with evolution, and what's
more, I always have been. But in the past few years, what I've started to
find odd is the insistence that evolution is the single most important
scientific claim in town. I cannot name a single other scientific topic that
has so many educators collectively wringing their hands, wondering how they
can get more students (or even adults out of school) to accept it. Why is
there no comparable concern to promote the understanding of, say.. quantum
mechanics, and how it differs from our common sense view of the world?
(Indeed, if the authors of Quantum Enigma are right - and I'm not saying
they are - the actual hope is that scientific laymen pay no attention to
that topic.) What about geological processes, or chemistry, or any other
number of topics? Why so much focus on one, and far and away only one,
scientific issue? And why does that same focus suggest that understanding
evolution is secondary to professed belief in it? And more than that,
professed belief with as little room for speculations on guidance, purpose,
intelligence and otherwise as possible?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Douglas Hayworth <
becomingcreation@gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI and FWIW, I commented briefly about this in one of my blog posts:
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> http://becomingcreation.org/2009/03/like-it-or-not/
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> Doug
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Alexanian, Moorad<alexanian@uncw.edu>
> wrote:
> > The central issue
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> > The central issue of the essay is the need to teach biological
> evolution</wiki/Biological_evolution> in the context of debate about
> creation and evolution in public
> education</wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_public_education> in the United
> States.[2] The fact that evolution occurs explains the interrelatedness of
> the various facts of biology, and so makes biology make sense.[3] The
> concept has become firmly established as a unifying idea in biology
> education.[4]
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution
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> > It is interesting that it does not say "as a unifying idea in biological
> research."
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> > Moorad
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