Posted by
Steve on Thursday, July 13, 2006 8:28:38 PM
Today, I had a conversation with a person that believes in evolution. When I explained my theory that somebody or something placed life here and then evolution was used, was rejected outright. He did not want to even hear my theory. He had to expound on his theory that life was created from non-life. According to the natural laws, that should be impossible. This person even teaches this to his students. He is incapable of seeing that he is teaching and believing in something that he also teaches is impossible.
Most people have a picture of scientists searching for truth. This is true for the most part. Scientists, probably more than most other groups, have their ideas they hold onto in the face of evidence. One of the problems with science is scientists rejecting evidence that disproves their theories and only looking for the data that will support their opinion.
Growing up, I had believed that that thinking had died. I had been taught in school that scientists look for truth and when they find it, they publish it for the world. In practice this almost never seems to happen. My brother has discovered a way to grow Hepatitis C virus outside of living human tissue. When he tried to tell the world that they were looking in the wrong place to grow Hepatitis C, the prople in the forefront of the research tried to bury his information. If my brother's information had gotten out to funding sources, they would have sent some funds to my brother. That would have taken funding away from the other researchers. Money is more important in this issue than finding a cure for Hepatitis C. How many people will die before a cure is found?
My general opinion of scientists is that they are sheep. They are afraid to stick their neck out and look at anything controversial. They do this out of fear of being branded a "kook". A kook does not get money for research. Money for research has paid for expensive houses and expensive cars for the researchers. That is a shame. I only know of this one instance for sure. But, how many other instances are there of scientists ignoring things that could cure diseases because they wanted funding for their pet ideas? I bet the funding sources would love to know the answer to that question.