Reasons to build a Beagle no. 2
New Scientist looks into the lab which is experimentally trying to uphold 'intelligent design' which as we know is creationism in drag. It may be risible and doomed to failure but as a para in the NS article points out, there is value beyond the so-called research:
"Ronald Numbers, a historian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied creationism, views it in a different light. The lab's existence will help sustain support within the anti-evolution community, he says. "It will be good for the troops if leaders in the ID movement can claim: 'We're not just talking theory. We have labs, we have real scientists working on this.'"
All the more reason to build a replica Beagle, use it as the focus of a science mentoring programme and as part of the pro-science, pro-evolution educational movement.
Tags: hms beagle replica, intelligent design, evolution
"Ronald Numbers, a historian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied creationism, views it in a different light. The lab's existence will help sustain support within the anti-evolution community, he says. "It will be good for the troops if leaders in the ID movement can claim: 'We're not just talking theory. We have labs, we have real scientists working on this.'"
All the more reason to build a replica Beagle, use it as the focus of a science mentoring programme and as part of the pro-science, pro-evolution educational movement.
Tags: hms beagle replica, intelligent design, evolution
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