"The Evolution of EVOLUTION, How Darwin's Theory Survives, Thrives and Reshapes the World", "The Future of Human Evolution", "Molecular Proof of Natural Selection", "How Life Invents Complex Traits" and "Creationists' Latest Tricks" are all title of articles in the January 2009 issue of Scientific American magazine. I am a subscriber and huge fan of Scientific American magazine but I have a problem with the latest issue. Webster's dictionary defines science as "knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method."

In this blog post I am not taking up one side of the evolution issue or  another but trying to point out how politics and ideology have corrupted the science community. I always thought of scientist as open minded, thorough and in general, interested in discussion from opposing points of view, however the latest issue of American Scientific magazine does everything except call for the "burning at the stake" of all those whose ideals are contrary to the Theory of Evolution. Here are some excerpts from the magazine;

In an article titled "The Latest Face of Creationism" there is a section which provides suggestions as to actions that can be taken if "controversy over the teaching of evolution erupts in your area"

The first action suggested is this; "Resolving the controversy requires thinking politically..." Does politics really have a place in science? Science is science and does not depend on opinion nor political ideology.

The second action suggested in this article is "Keep in mind that the goal is not only to keep creationism out of the science classroom but also to ensure that evolution is taught properly - without qualifiers such as 'only a theory'"... Well, isn't the Theory of Evolution still a theory? When was it proven via the scientific method?

I'll stop there but the magazine continues an all out assault on creationism and intelligent design throughout several other articles.  My question is this, Are we at a point where our scientific community has abandoned the scientific method and are replacing it with ideology instead? A similar issue which also represents ideological views instead of scientific views from a majority of the scientific community is global warming and the cause and effect of it. But I will save this for another post.

I don't normaly write off topic much but this is something I have been researching for the last couple weeks. I am going to continue to research the facts but here is the general premise of my theory. (Conspiracy therory even!)

Over the last 10 years Americans have extended ourselves right to the edge of what our budgets could afford. In general, we took out home loans for houses we could barely afford because we were short sighted and thought the price of housing would just continue to rise. During this time a lot of Americans stressed there financial situation to the point they were living paycheck to paycheck.

During this period the middle eastern terrorist organisations along with some of the middle eastern countries (you don't think they are really our friends do you?) had a plan to push Amreicans over the perverbial financial cliff. For most americans living on the financial edge anyway a monthly increase in fuel cost along with everything else that was affected by the price of gas was enough to crumble the house of cards. Suddenly Americans, living paycheck to paycheck, had an extra $200+ per month gas cost. With the increase in their monthly expenses something had to give and that was their mortgage. Thousands of Americans suddenly faced with an increase in monthly expenses can no longer pay their mortgages and go into forclosure on their homes.

Because of how deeply integrated the mortgage business was in the core of the American economy this triggered a massive collapse of our financial system. I am still researching this and will have more details in future post but it is a plausible scenario and one that could have been easily manipulated by middle eastern powers? Is this the case? I'm not sure but....

 More to come!