Junkie!
Being an NPR junkie has it's advantages.
One of them is that each Sunday evening
WHAD does a three hour program of old time
radio drama. These programs are "rebroadcasts"
of shows from the Mid 1930's to the mid 1950's
and include the original "sponsor messages' and
public service announcements. These shows span
the range from variety shows through comedies,
mysteries and westerns. This is all good stuff.
Once in awhile something special comes along.
Last night was one of those nights.
It seems that a group performed a "play" in
GreenBay last month. This play was part narrated
documentary and part drama. It was a re-enactment
of the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" in Tennesee in
which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant
went head to head over the Creationism/Evolution
issue. The dialog presented as lines spoken by
the actors was taken word for word from the
transcript of the trial. Very interesting stuff
and good ol' NPR was right there to get the recording
and the right to rebroadcast. Cudos to NPR!
If you have followed with any interest at all, the
the latest Fundamentalist attempt at the Creationist
theory of Intelligent Design and heard the words from
the 1925 court transcript yo would see that the scopes
monkey trial continues on to this day, although in more
sophisticated and also more ambiguous terms.
A scientist is a person that by choice, and by training
cannot accept as fact anything that is not based on empirical
evidence. A person of faith accepts as fact things for which
no empirical evidence can be found. The person of faith will
never be able to present a fact that will convince the scientist
and the scientist will never be able to convince the person of
true faith through evidence logic or reason. This of course as
a generality. Some are able to live with dichotomy.
So the controversy continues and probably will until there are no
scientists or there are no people of Faith, left to argue the point.
Still unresolved and probably unresolvable.
All is food for thought. My thought right now is that, for all
the many ways in which this country is screwed up, we can still
have these cotroversies periodically rage through our society and
people are able to make up their own minds on things like this and
agree to disagree.
Let's hope that this never changes.
Meanwhile, NPR remains entertaining, thought provoking and
liberal in the best sense of that term.
One of them is that each Sunday evening
WHAD does a three hour program of old time
radio drama. These programs are "rebroadcasts"
of shows from the Mid 1930's to the mid 1950's
and include the original "sponsor messages' and
public service announcements. These shows span
the range from variety shows through comedies,
mysteries and westerns. This is all good stuff.
Once in awhile something special comes along.
Last night was one of those nights.
It seems that a group performed a "play" in
GreenBay last month. This play was part narrated
documentary and part drama. It was a re-enactment
of the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" in Tennesee in
which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant
went head to head over the Creationism/Evolution
issue. The dialog presented as lines spoken by
the actors was taken word for word from the
transcript of the trial. Very interesting stuff
and good ol' NPR was right there to get the recording
and the right to rebroadcast. Cudos to NPR!
If you have followed with any interest at all, the
the latest Fundamentalist attempt at the Creationist
theory of Intelligent Design and heard the words from
the 1925 court transcript yo would see that the scopes
monkey trial continues on to this day, although in more
sophisticated and also more ambiguous terms.
A scientist is a person that by choice, and by training
cannot accept as fact anything that is not based on empirical
evidence. A person of faith accepts as fact things for which
no empirical evidence can be found. The person of faith will
never be able to present a fact that will convince the scientist
and the scientist will never be able to convince the person of
true faith through evidence logic or reason. This of course as
a generality. Some are able to live with dichotomy.
So the controversy continues and probably will until there are no
scientists or there are no people of Faith, left to argue the point.
Still unresolved and probably unresolvable.
All is food for thought. My thought right now is that, for all
the many ways in which this country is screwed up, we can still
have these cotroversies periodically rage through our society and
people are able to make up their own minds on things like this and
agree to disagree.
Let's hope that this never changes.
Meanwhile, NPR remains entertaining, thought provoking and
liberal in the best sense of that term.