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People care because the anti-evolutionary forces are hurting scientific progress and the technological advances that usually accompany them. If an honest resear
by Confusion 17y ago
People care because the anti-evolutionary forces are hurting scientific progress and the technological advances that usually accompany them. If an honest research proposal needs to include the word 'evolution', but you can't use that, because it would reduce your changes of getting funding, then something is seriously wrong.
- jswinghammer 17y agoI don't want the government to fund research at all so if that's what you're referring to then it's probably not going to convince me much here. I guess if they are screening for the word evolution then that's pretty dumb though. I have a hard time believing that's still the case since Bush left office.
- jballanc 17y agoThere doesn't have to be deterministic screening for scientists to get the message. Events like the one described in the link below don't exactly impart confidence in an evolutionary biologist that they'll continue to get funded if they stay in America: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6...