Against would-be US prez Ted Cruz (who was born in Canada, so that’ll be the next big thing):
Virtually all of modern biology and medicine has its basis in evolution. No serious scientist disputes that evolution is by far the best explanation for the species around us, and for a thousand other phenomena that scientists study every day. The debate about the fact of evolution is long over. As a scientist, I find it just embarrassing to have prominent U.S. politicians publicly deny evolution.
Aw, get real for once:
1. Virtually all of modern biology has its basis in the cell theory of life and the germ theory of disease. Even a seven-year-old can understand this: The history of life on the planet could be quite different from what we now conceive and that difference wouldn’t matter much. But if we were wrong about the other stuff, it would matter a lot. That is the true reason why it doesn’t matter in real science what people believe about evolution.
2. So far as I know, the United States still has rules like the First Amendment that allow people to think what they want about such matters. I do not know why this profbot is embarrassed by that fact. I’d have expected him to be proud of it. But at least he isn’t supporting the candidate, which is something, to be sure.
But maybe my standards for a profbot are too high.
In political science as opposed to real science, of course, it matters a lot. And political science is probably the only one many Darwinprofs have down cold. Or would even want to have, these days.
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