Are We All Heretics?

Heretic - "A person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma..." - American Heritage Dictionary

While going to College I noticed that I would often disagree with my Professor. I would ask questions posed as nicely as I could put them, but I found that if I disagreed with the textbook or the Professor, my grades were not going to be as good as they otherwise would be.

Now, don't get me wrong, I wound up with a 3.84 GPA with over 200 Credits when I graduated from College, but it was a struggle to keep my mouth shut on many occasion.

When I took Biology Class, I would ask questions about the origin of the species and the proverbial missing link and would find my question was responded to with anger, so I soon found that if I approached the professor after class things would go much smoother.

Witness the following from the Preface in the Book "Icons of Evolution":

" During my years as a physical science undergraduate and biology graduate student as University of California, Berkeley, I believed almost everything I read in my textbooks, I knew that the books contained a few misprints and minor factual errors, and I was skeptical of philosophical claims that went beyond the evidence, but I thought that most of what I was being taught was substantially true.

As I was finishing my Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology, however, I noticed that all of my textbooks dealing with evolutionary biology contained a blatant misrepresentation: Drawings of vertebrate embryos showing similarities that were supposed to be evidence for descent from a common ancestor. But as an embryologist I knew the drawings were false. Not only did they distort the embryos they purported to show, but they also omitted earlier stages in which the embryos look very different from each other."

I wonder if he ran into the same bias that I had found and that is...we should not challenge the established worldview unless we wanted to be labeled a heretic. The holy alliance of the "High Priests of Higher Education" will pound you into submission if you dare challenge their ego during classroom time where you might actually be able to stir some freethinking by your peers.

No wonder there is few, if any, other "Theories" being taught about evolution.

Thank God when I took Political Science my professor actually was teaching from a book that pointed out that since the definition of government was force, that it follows to reason that the true left-right political line should be drawn with "Force" being the correct axis and not the new definitions of Communistic thought on the Left and Fascism thought on the right.

He pointed out that all Authoritarian forms of government belonged on the left and only a Republic form of government belonged on the right since the amount of “Force” was the key to understanding governments and political thought.

He told me at the time there were forces in Academia at work to confuse the political landscape to inject Orwellian ideas of double speak into the arena. Things like “Right-wing Dictatorship” he correctly pointed out are an oxymoron when using the “Force” definition of government since a Dictatorship is a strong Authoritarian form of government.

It is amazing how I run into people who have graduate degrees and miss this simple important fact. Oh well, even the very elect are caught up in the lies propagated by the Godless Socialist thought that has taken a strong foot hold in Academia.

Sad, but there are huge difficulties to overcome to gain a truly free exchange of ideas in our Holy alliance of the "High Priests of Higher Education."