“Humankind Learns New Things Over Time. That’s Not a Bad Thing, It’s a Good Thing. But the People Whose Careers Are Tied to the Old Understanding Sometimes PERCEIVE It As a Bad Thing. It Is the Job of the Society As a Whole to Help Them Understand That Progress Is a Plus and Must Be Permitted.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

Every article? Every text book? How can anyone take you seriously.

How many science textbooks do you think had to be rewritten when it was discovered that the earth revolves around the sun rather than the other way around?

Humankind learns new things over time. That’s not a bad thing, it’s a good thing. But the people whose careers are tied to the old understanding sometimes PERCEIVE it as a bad thing. It is the job of the society as a whole to help them understand that progress is a plus and must be permitted.

Rob