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"Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net> wrote in
news:1141477592.607253.71380@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
http://badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/02/04/outrage-at-attacks-on-nasa-scie
nce/
To save time here is the issue:
In October 2005, Mr. Deutsch sent an e-mail message to Flint Wild, a NASA
contractor working on a set of Web presentations about Einstein for middle-
school students. The message said the word “theory” needed to be added
after every mention of the Big Bang.
The Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion,” Mr. Deutsch wrote,
adding, “It is not NASA’s place, nor should it be to make a declaration
such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent
design by a creator.”
Deutsch’s email] continued: “This is more than a science issue, it is a
religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be
getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to
properly educate the very people who rely on us for factual information the
most."
The Big Bang memo came from Mr. Deutsch, a 24-year-old presidential
appointee in the press office at NASA headquarters whose résumé says he was
an intern in the “war room” of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. A
2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M, he was also the public-affairs
officer who sought more control over Dr. Hansen’s public statements.
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Now it is the intent and the attitude behind the memo that is the issue.
Sure, adding theory to the phrase "Big Bang" isn't necessarily innaccurate
as we have the theories of gravity, propagation of light, relativity, and
even music to name just a few. To state that this is a religous issue is
just plain ignorant or stupid, take your pick.
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