Most of us know that President Eisenhower, in his farewell …

Comment on LSU Removes Dr. Lee Grismer as Chairman of the Biology Department by gene fortner.

Most of us know that President Eisenhower, in his farewell speech, warned of the danger of the “military-industrial complex”. Regardless of your particular stand on military spending, there is no doubt that he was substantially right about the enormous abuse of power and fraud in the defense industry.
Less known is the Eisenhower’s second warning in the speech.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. [emphasis mine]
A remarkably succinct and accurate prediction of the situation we face today.
ClimateGate is the tip of the iceberg of the corrupt influence of our scientific elite on public policy, ranging from censorship of honest discussion of evolution in our schools to the ‘Cap and Trade’ boondoggle based on fabricated global warming science to the fraud and political power-play shaping up in Copenhagen to self-enriching pressure by scientists and industry to exempt human embryonic stem cell research from traditional ethical constraints on destroying human life.
We ignore Eisenhower’s warning, and the overwhelming evidence before us now, at our own peril.

Eisenhower was right!!
From The Scientist: Science is “an elitist sport now”?
October 22, 2013 Posted by NewsunderNews, Peer review
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Further to peer review is bust (The Economist), a biomedical researcher-turned-writer weighs in with another issue, elitism:
… in the West, we now insist on only hiring scientists who have published in top-tier journals. If you suggest to any of the top institutions that this policy is in place they will vehemently deny it, even though the publication history of their recent hires suggests otherwise. This is also a highly unethical practice as it pretty much excludes most of the world from participating in research at this level. Indeed, according to a conversation I had with the PI of a very well-funded lab in the U.S., to produce enough data to publish in these journals can cost well over $1 million dollars per paper. This is an elitist sport now. “We are an equal opportunity employer” no longer applies. “We employ people who have a science lineage only” seems more appropriate. By that I mean those who have come from wealthy labs who could afford to publish in the journals that are deemed acceptable.
Good luck getting a new but strongly supported theory, accepted only by the proverbial five per cent, a fair trial in an environment of this type. No wonder we keep hearing the same old same old ain’t so.
http://www.uncommondescent.com/peer-review/from-the-scientist-science-is-an-elitist-sport-now/
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LSU Removes Dr. Lee Grismer as Chairman of the Biology Department
Michael,

FYI

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/


LSU Removes Dr. Lee Grismer as Chairman of the Biology Department
George,

The Bible explains why. You should try reading it.

Can man create bad germs? Is that called biological warfare?

Is that Intelligent Design?


LSU Removes Dr. Lee Grismer as Chairman of the Biology Department
You could add cosmogony and have a seminar on the many problems of the big bang, multi-universe, ….


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Bill “How inane would it be to claim an apple tree is not an apple tree unless and until it has apples on it?”

Bill,

Comparing babies and apple trees is a bit more inane than comparing apples and oranges.

BTW,

“The ONLY DEFINITION FOR SIN that we have in the Bible is that it is the transgression of the law… IT CONDEMNS EVERY SIN, AND REQUIRES EVERY VIRTUE.” E.G. White, ST, March 3, 1890 par. 3.

If it is a sin to possess a fallen nature then there must be a law against it. Has God given a law forbidding anyone from being conceived with a fallen human nature? If there ever was a law that was impossible to keep, this would be it, for how could one choose not to violate it before one existed?!


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Ethan,

IMHO,

No statement was necessary.

In fact I consider it thoughtless.

FB#6 should have absolutely no effect on their ability to support the world church and perform work faithfully and with integrity.


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@Bill Sorensen:

Bill,

Sin is transgression of the law.

Where does it say being born is a sin?