Good News—About Science

by Lee Duigon

May 4, 2023

I was amazed when I read that “a thousand scientists” signed a petition warning the public against the “zealotry” of radical “veganism” and reminding their audience that meat is “crucial to human health”. I mean, gee, scientists? Aren’t they all lined up for a totally plant-based diet—to Save The Planet from Man-Made Climate Change? (They’d also like us to eat bugs.) Where did they find a thousand scientists to say otherwise?

Meanwhile, I was reading “Is Atheism Dead?” by Eric Metaxas, in which he reported—again, to my amazement—that there are thousands, multitudes of scientists out there quietly working in their respective fields and in no imminent danger of coming out as atheists. They observe, collect evidence, test their theories, exchange their thoughts with others, and strive to come up with science that’s both accurate and beneficial. Metaxas names quite a few of them; and yet I’d never heard of any one of them. Why was that?

Honk if you’ve already guessed the answer: our so-called news media.

I was approaching a conviction of deep skepticism where “science” is concerned, and beginning to think of “scientists” in general as nothing more than the Far Left’s water boys. And that was when I was feeling charitable.

Science news paints a picture of prominent scientists as a brigade of atheists, socialists, and frauds. They’re the ones who get the PBS specials on TV—remember “Cosmos,” starring Carl Sagan? Teaching us that matter is all there is. Neil DeGrasse Tyson got a series, too. And we were always hearing from Bill Nye the Science Guy, who never met a Far Left shibboleth he didn’t like.

Vast amounts of air time have been showered on “the New Atheists”—Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris & Co.—spitting venom at “religion” (‘cause all religions are alike, don’t you know) and blaming “religion,” by which they usually mean Christians, for everything that’s ever gone wrong in our world. You could easily form the impression that all “science” is adamantly opposed to Christianity.

I was drifting into that point of view; and I’m happy to admit I was wrong. The media push for Far Left science was so powerful, so insistent, so lacking in coverage of any other point of view, that it successfully deceived me.

How could I have forgotten Mary Schweitzer, just to name one? It was Dr. Schweitzer who first discovered soft tissue in a fossil Tyrannosaurus leg bone. And boy, howdy, how the “science news” establishment came down on her! They even accused her of mistaking bathub-ring bacteria for T. rex soft tissue. Not only had she just upset the apple cart; but here was a scientist who was a practicing Christian (collective gasp) actually getting coverage in the news media. Not allowed! But she stuck to her guns, and now that they knew where to look, other scientists, honest scientists, also found soft tissue in many different dinosaur fossils. It was no longer a conjecture, but a fact. Cry me a river.

By and large they get no coverage, we never hear much about them or their work, their words are drowned out by the media megaphone in the hands of atheists and statists—but there they are. They have not given up belief in God. For many of them, in fact, their work in science strengthens their religious faith. What a calamity.

There they are in every field of science—astronomy, physics, mathematics, archaeology, paleontology, you name it—working every day toward a deeper understanding of the universe that God created. It would be good for us all to know them better.

They may not win much fame, but they’re after something much more valuable—

Truth.

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