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qualified to give expert opinion on its uses. As The Nation magazine reported on April 7, 2003, Watson is an
energetic advocate of re-engineering the human genetic germline. In a British documentary film, Watson is shown
declaring that genetic expertise should be used to rid the world of "stupid" children. And "ugly" girls! It is only
necessary to recall the time when corporate science presented the world with DDT as a way to rid the world of
stupid and ugly bugs, and the horrifying aftermath of that exercise in problem-solving, to reflect that we might be
better off ridding the world of Watsons and keeping our stupid kids and ugly girls.
15 One of the most amazing deceptive practices relating to science has been the successful concealment, by
the managers of science and science teaching, of the strong religious component shared by many of the greatest
names in science: Copernicus, Galileo, Boyle, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin and many more. Even Galileo had
no doubt about his faith in God, only in the established church’s interpretation of His will. Newton’s Principia is
unambiguous on this matter, saying "He must be blind who...cannot see the infinite wisdom and goodness of [the]
Almighty Creator and he must be mad, or senseless, who refused to acknowledge [Him].
A.P. French quotes Albert Einstein in his Einstein: A Centenary Volume (1979) on the matter this way:
You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious
feeling....,rapturous amazement of the natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such
superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is
an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work. It is
beyond questions closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
But neither Newton or Einstein cut the mustard, where their spirituality might raise embarrassing questions among
school children. School science is almost purely about lifeless mechanics. In the next chapter we'll see why that
happened.
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