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Ross Olson [ross@rossolson.org]
July 28, 2023
To: Editor Star Tribune (opinion@startribune.com)
Nicholas Kristof highlights methods of increasing racial and economic diversity in colleges ("The true college admissions scandal", Star Tribune, 7/28/2023). But there is another aspect of diversity that deserves attention, that is intellectual diversity.
I will mention the area of my own training. In premedical studies and medical school, the "accepted" interpretations of all the sciences were not only presented unopposed, but dissent was omitted, ignored or even punished.
The incredible complexity of the human body and brain were attributed to accumulated copying mistakes over vast spans of time. Even the whole universe was described as the result of a cosmic explosion of something that came from nothing, despite the fact that it violates all the verifiable laws of physics.
To claim that the evidence requires an intelligent designer outside of the universe is rejected as "unscientific' because science is defined as excluding it. And adherence to that ruling paradigm determines if you are considered a qualified expert who deserves to be heard.
Does anyone see a problem?
Ross S. Olson MD
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Richfield MN 55423
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