The rate of change in science is outstandingly fast. This fast rate o

Truths are spread throughout a culture through many different mediums. Myths and folklore have been a primary road for the truths of any given time in society. This road branches out from mothers who tell their children stories about honor and honesty, to what we learn in our schools about people like George Washington saying the famous words, "I can not tell I lie..." What is found in a story is something that everyone can appreciate and even witness. Stories encode the environment. In return, the environment encodes new stories. For example, Theodore Schick points out that, "In order to know which constellations are rising or the orientation of the Milky Way on a given day of the year, it can be remembered by a story about lovers reuniting or a canoe negotiating the sacred river." (Ferris, 183) Now if we consider the time frame that these stories were created, we find that it was crucial to have an understanding of the skies. It was crucial because the appearance of certain constellations meant the planting of certain crops. The point is that these stories had practical purposes. The different constellations also help reassure our place in the universe. But that doesn't mean that the Milky Way is really a river or that a canoe is really negotiating its way across the stars. These examples are easy to see through. Basic common sense tells us that the Milky Way is not a river. But, what happens when the example is as complex as quantum mechanics? Is the truth so obvious as the river in the proceeding example. The answer is no, and with that, the theory goes unquestioned, uncriticized, and more importantly, believed and trusted. The scientist is free to express any level of subjectivity or prejudice desired.

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The historian Joyce Appleby criticizes Darwin's ideas by saying, "When Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, he was an atheist and a materialist." (Tudge, 273) Appleby is suggesting that evolution was a product of atheism. This couldn't be further from the truth. Appleby and her colleges have simply confused cause and effect. As a matter of fact, Darwin was about to become a minister of the church of England when the opportunity to sail on H.M.S. Beagle arose. But through his studies of nature in the following years, it dawned on him that some of his religion was false (Tudge, 285). Appleby goes as far as to call Darwin a racist (Tudge, 286). Once again we see the human behind the scientist. Even if Darwin wasn't a racist, how does it effect the truth or falsity of natural selection. Darwinism can be viewed from positive as well as negative angels. If we could censor Darwinism, what other kinds of knowledge could be censored? More importantly, who would do the censoring. Who is wise enough to do know what insights we should or shouldn't accept? According to Stephen J. Gould, abstract ideas become frozen and go unquestioned. All things created by human minds will contain at least a certain amount of bias. Whether we are talking about art, music, science, architecture, or literature, a certain amount of biases and prejudices is inevitable. Since these biases and prejudices are impossible to eliminate entirely, it is vitally important that any body of work that is created by the human mind is approached with caution.

Edward U. Condon was an American physicist and a pioneer in quantum mechanics. He was a key player in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II. (Fernandez, 665). Later in life he was a professor of physics at the University of Colorado where he directed a controversial Air Force funded scientific study of UFO's. Members of congress challenged Condon's loyalty to the

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