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The selection process has become political, as it was not given to Ronald Reagan or Pope John Paul II or to anyone who criticizes the theory of evolution. The Nobel Prizes for literature and peace are mostly given to outspoken liberals, such as Jimmy Carter. | The selection process has become political, as it was not given to Ronald Reagan or Pope John Paul II or to anyone who criticizes the theory of evolution. The Nobel Prizes for literature and peace are mostly given to outspoken liberals, such as Jimmy Carter. | ||
| − | In two cases, the Nobel Prize was denied to the person most responsible for the discovery apparently because they had been critical of the theory of evolution. No other plausible explanation has been advanced for these awards. British physicist and evolution-critic Fred Hoyle was the leader on the project recognized with a Nobel Prize, but he was omitted from the recipients. Raymond Damadian, another critic of the theory of evolution, invented the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner but was omitted from the award relating to that accomplishment.<ref>http://whyfiles.org/188nobel_mri/</ref> | + | In two cases, the Nobel Prize was denied to the person most responsible for the discovery apparently because they had been critical of the theory of evolution. No other plausible explanation has been advanced for these awards. |
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| + | One glaring omission was for the British physicist and evolution-critic Fred Hoyle. He was the leader on the project recognized with a Nobel Prize, but he was omitted from the recipients. Hoyle was an outspoken critic of the theory of evolution. For example, he said: | ||
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| + | "Anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik cube will concede the near impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind person moving the cube faces at random. Now imagine 1050 blind persons (standing shoulder to shoulder, these would more than fill our entire planetary system) each with a scrambled Rubik cube and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling (random variation) of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order."<ref>Fred Hoyle, The Big Bang in Astronomy, in New Scientist, November 19, 1981.</ref> | ||
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| + | Another glaring omission was for Raymond Damadian, another critic of the theory of evolution, invented the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner but was omitted from the award relating to that accomplishment.<ref>http://whyfiles.org/188nobel_mri/</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 00:34, December 27, 2006
Begun in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been the highest honor for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature and peace. Economics was added as a prize in 1969.
The selection process has become political, as it was not given to Ronald Reagan or Pope John Paul II or to anyone who criticizes the theory of evolution. The Nobel Prizes for literature and peace are mostly given to outspoken liberals, such as Jimmy Carter.
In two cases, the Nobel Prize was denied to the person most responsible for the discovery apparently because they had been critical of the theory of evolution. No other plausible explanation has been advanced for these awards.
One glaring omission was for the British physicist and evolution-critic Fred Hoyle. He was the leader on the project recognized with a Nobel Prize, but he was omitted from the recipients. Hoyle was an outspoken critic of the theory of evolution. For example, he said:
"Anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik cube will concede the near impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind person moving the cube faces at random. Now imagine 1050 blind persons (standing shoulder to shoulder, these would more than fill our entire planetary system) each with a scrambled Rubik cube and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling (random variation) of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order."[1]
Another glaring omission was for Raymond Damadian, another critic of the theory of evolution, invented the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner but was omitted from the award relating to that accomplishment.[2]
Sources:
- ↑ Fred Hoyle, The Big Bang in Astronomy, in New Scientist, November 19, 1981.
- ↑ http://whyfiles.org/188nobel_mri/
