Do 99% of Scientists Really Support Evolution

foreign foreign [Music] foreign the way the chair of the department uh put it is that i was viewed as an intellectual terrorist terrorist because of giving the topic of intelligent design some modicum of credibility as a result dr sternberg lost his office his political and religious beliefs were investigated and he was pressured to resign i realized when i kind of went public with my doubts about the adequacy of darwin's theory uh that uh you know that i would encounter criticism uh what has uh amazed me is the viciousness and the sort of baseness of [Music] it so uh the fact that this was singled out let alone shut down is jaw-dropping it's astonishing i have never been uh treated like this if they value their careers they should keep quiet about their intelligent design views it's the kind of thing where you just learn to keep your mouth shut in addition to those scientists who are willing to appear on camera we encountered many more who didn't dare show their face for fear of losing their jobs foreign if anybody should be able to understand evolution it is me because i make molecules for a living i don't understand evolution and i will confess that to you is it okay for me to say that i don't understand this is that all right i know that there's a lot of people out there that don't understand anything about organic synthesis but they understand evolution i understand a lot about making molecules i don't understand evolution and you would say that wow i must be really unusual but about seven or eight years ago i posted on my website that i don't understand and i said i will buy lunch for anyone that will sit with me and explain to me evolution and i won't argue with you until i don't understand something i will ask you to clarify but you can't wave by and say this enzyme does that you got to get down in the details of where molecules are built for me nobody has come forth this society contacted me they said that they will buy the lunch and they challenge the aether society go down to houston have lunch with this guy and talk to him nobody's come hey let me tell you what goes on in the back rooms of science with national academy members with nobel prize winners i have sat with them and when i get them alone not in public because it's a scary thing if you if you say what i just said and i say do you understand all of this where all of this came from and how this happens every time that i have sat with people they who are synthetic chemists who understand this they go uh-uh nope i have sat with national academy members and nobel prize winners sometimes i will say do you understand this and if they're afraid to say yes they say nothing they just stare at me because they can't sincerely do it i was once brought in by the the dean of the department once and many years ago and he was a chemist and he was kind of concerned about some things i said let me let me ask you something you're a chemist do you understand this how do you get how do you get dna without a cell membrane and how do you get a cell membrane without a dna and how does all this come together from this he said jim we have no idea we have no idea i said isn't it interesting that you the dean of science and i the chemistry professor can talk about this quietly in your office but we can't go out there and talk about this s why more scientists don't reject it one is that if they did they would lose all of their prestige within science they would never get another research grant and if they didn't have academic tenure they'd get fired uh there is a system of thought control over this uh which is extremely rigid it's worth your profession maybe they kind of had a whole health [Music] in the wake of the trial time magazine named judge jones one of the 100 most influential people of the year um [Music] [Music] foreign foreign pharmacology foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign [Music]