Re: paleonet Re: persistant hate E- mail (which is OFF TOPIC)

[James Davison <jamesdavison@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To all,

I have followed the argument with interest.  I work as an emergency 
physician in Tennessee in the USA, and I am sorry to report that the 
majority of nurses and quite a few physicians that I work with reject 
the "theory" of evolution.

How is it possible to address the impending biological holocaust when so 
many Americans refuse to accept basic points of the argument?

I have come to respect the courage of men like Dawkins who point to 
religion as the root of the problem.  Blind religious ideology and 
scientific curiosity cannot co-exist in the same brain.    Religious 
institutions start early in life and create viewpoints that are almost 
impossible to overturn.  Although many of us would like to take a 
live-and-let-live viewpoint, I can guarantee that school boards are 
filled with people who are antiscientific, and committed to raising the 
next generations with their viewpoints -- and if they are victorious, 
our best opportunity for sparing Earth's biodiversity will be lost.

This is a supremely crucial argument, and the role of scientific 
professionals has never been more important.   It is vital that we do 
everything possible to give young minds a glimpse of the scientific 
method, and the structure of knowledge that is their rightful inheritance.

-- Jim Davison, MD

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