Religion, Not Science, Source Of Humphreys' Kooky Ideas
To the editors:
I am writing to point out that Sandia National Laboratories has nothing to do with Russ Humphreys' kooky ideas about a young Earth and sprinting continents (News, Nov. 9). He has never published these speculations in a science journal, nor has he presented them at Sandia for peer review.
Humphreys works at Sandia in a weapons engineering group, which does not do scientific research. He has never seen fit to explain to geologists at Sandia why he thinks their work to characterize the stability of nuclear waste sites is incorrect by many orders of magnitude. Doesn't he have a moral obligation to speak out? If these rocks have only been around for 6,000 years, then scientists' conclusions about their stability--and therefore their safety--are all wrong! It appears he would rather make trouble for schoolteachers than for his coworkers and he'd rather get his name in newspapers than on science papers. It is unfortunate that his affiliation with Sandia, rather than his church, is what gets mentioned in the news. After all, his ideas are based on his religion, not on science.
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