[And to show what depraved depths have seized the liars who have lied to
us all our lives and still keep lying to us, these liars actually gloat
about it........]
05/15/2002
“Science has triumphed over religion in an argument over an exhibition
about Gregor Mendel, the Augustine monk who discovered the laws of
heredity,” reports Nature, May 16 in the News in Brief section. “The
current abbot had asked that the religious background to Mendel’s life
and work form part of the exhibition (see Nature 410, 6; 2001), but
dropped this request after the abbey agreed to host annual workshops on
bioethics.” The scene is the Brno monastery in the Czech Republic, home
of the Mendelianum museum and the place where Gregor Mendel conducted
his epochal experiments on peas. The current abbot was unhappy with the
exhibit designers, according to the March 1, 2001 news item in Nature,
“because their museum places too much emphasis on the scientific aspects
of Mendel’s life. The abbot, they say, wants a new exhibition of
Mendel’s life that will reflect his religious beliefs as well as his
scientific interests.” Apparently he gave a year for the museum
committee to come up with a proposal, and when they stalled and he
turned up the heat, they mounted a “disinformation campaign” against
him. Abbott Lukas Evzen Martinec was upset not only about the “low
religious content” of the display, but also that “the museum’s owners
have not uncovered religious motifs that were hidden during the
communist days.” Apparently Martinec has now compromised and agreed to
keep Mendel’s religion out of the exhibit. Mendel will be remembered as
scientist, not monk.
We don’t need Stalin and Kruschev to turn churches into museums of
atheism any more; we have the scientific establishment to carry on the
work of the Ministry of Truth. Mendel’s faith in God as Creator was a
prime motivation for his rigorous, groundbreaking work that is not only
the foundation of genetics, but a model of experimental method. How can
this part of his character be erased without doing a great injustice to
his legacy? What is so awful about Christian faith that it must be
expunged from anything portrayed as scientific? Many of the greatest
scientists through history were Christians and creationists. It is a Big
Lie to turn them into proponents of materialist philosophy. Nature
should be embarrassed to portray this as a triumph of science over
religion, perpetuating a false dichotomy and supporting the whitewashing
of history.
http://creationsafaris.com/crev0502.htm#bug41
