A “cry for help”?
Science teachers and scientists around the world are missing out on an excellent opportunity to advance their cause.
The current (recurring?) controversy over “natural selection” as a subject of grammar school education in the United States presents the rational world with a very prominent stage upon which to not only expose those who question evolution as poseurs, but also, and more importantly, to help keep all of us of in a critical frame of mind.
Could it be that the parents who are asking for evolution to be challenged in the classroom on religious grounds are actually making a cry for help that, if answered, could benefit the whole world?
Could it be that with every person who answers a telephone poll saying “Honestly, I don’t know if evolution is or isn’t true,” there’s probably a person who could then say “Why don’t you tell me if it is. I’m open from 8pm to the 10 o’clock news.”
Heck, who doesn’t enjoy a good trial of the known world every century or so? Every year? A new gameshow? “Test the Enlightenment?”
Personally, I hate trying to market a product (e.g., liberalism) with a warning like: “If they win, we all lose.”
I’d much rather promote a gameshow where “We all win.”
If you think that sounds hokey: dig a little deeper. The answer to the rhetorical question “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” is pretty much the same as my slogan above. We all want to winners. Hence, we all want to be millionaires.
Let’s watch!