Faith Versus Fact : Why Science And Religion Are Incompatible (9780698195516) (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
I admit I’m surprised whenever I encounter a religious scientist. How can a bench-hazed Ph.D., who might in an afternoon deftly purée a colleague’s PowerPoint presentation on the nematode genome into so much fish chow, then go home, read in a two-thousand-year-old chronicle, riddled with internal contradictions, of a meta-Nobel discovery like “Resurrection from the Dead,” and say, gee, that sounds convincing? Doesn’t the good doctor wonder what the control group looked like? —Natalie Angier I learned about the nature of science the hard way. After an undergraduate education in biology at a small southern college, I was determined to get a Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics at the best laboratory in that field. At the time, that was the laboratory of Richard Lewontin at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, for Lewontin was widely seen as the world’s best evolutionary geneticist. But soon after I arrived and began working on evolution in fruit flies, I thought I’d made a terrible mistake.
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