Thursday, February 12, 2009
Scientific Evolution
I was thinking about all the hype at the moment about 200 years of Darwin and started to get a bit irritated. For me science is all about the NEW and EXCITING! I love being a scientist as I get to do and see things no one has ever seen before and it gives me a real buzz. I love going to conferences, even when they are in wet, unglamorous holiday villages in run down ex-industrial towns (somehow I have totally missed out going to conferences anywhere hot and sunny and sophisticated). I love hearing what cool new experiments people have designed, I love hearing how the field is evolving and developing.
For me science is dynamic and ever changing and the emphasis on 200 years of Darwin or 50 years of Einstein or other narrow people focused things seem very un-science to me. It's more of a personality cult and opinion rather than facts and new theories and current ideas and generally regressive rather than progressive. Obviously the whole scientific field based on evolution is still current and progressive and hopefully getting some positive exposure reflected from the current Darwin based celebrations but everything in the general media seems to be looking back rather than seeing forward or worse it's mired in the whole evolution/intelligent design 'debate'.
For me science is dynamic and ever changing and the emphasis on 200 years of Darwin or 50 years of Einstein or other narrow people focused things seem very un-science to me. It's more of a personality cult and opinion rather than facts and new theories and current ideas and generally regressive rather than progressive. Obviously the whole scientific field based on evolution is still current and progressive and hopefully getting some positive exposure reflected from the current Darwin based celebrations but everything in the general media seems to be looking back rather than seeing forward or worse it's mired in the whole evolution/intelligent design 'debate'.
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