I've always found it interesting that those who oppose evolutionary biology in theory neve

I've always found it interesting that those who oppose evolutionary
biology in theory never seem to oppose the benefits that come from
(and can only come from) evolutionary biology. Whenever the opportunity
arises to personally profit from evolutionary biology, whether through
investments or employment in health care, biotechnology, agricultural or
pharmaceutical companies, or through offering services to these companies,
e.g. by constructing their offices and labs and providing them with all
necessary equipment, from pencils to blackboards to needles to chemicals
to glassware to instruments to food service, or through offering services
to their employees, e.g. constructing their houses, selling them
furniture, or through the taking of effective medication for an ailment
(medication conceived, designed, and tested solely using evolutionary
biology as the modeling process), such people are curiously silent and
very eager to take the potential profit. Such behavior reminds me of a
passage in Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged", in which Dagny Taggert takes
a leave of absence from Taggert Transcontinental (where she is VP of
Operations) to start the John Galt Line, primarily to prove that a
railroad network would be far more reliable using the innovative Reardon
Metal rather than steel. Dagny Taggert is continually abused, derided, and
ridiculed by those who support the "theory of altruism" and virulently
oppose the "theory of rational self-interest". However, as Dagny Taggert
builds the John Galt Line and it becomes clear that the "theory of
rational self-interest", unlike the "theory of altruism", produces
tangible, _productive_ results, the promoters of "altruism", while
continuing to publicly and vociferously denounce the "theory of rational
self-interest", quietly begin to buy up large blocks of stock in the John
Galt Line, fully expecting Dagny Taggert and the "theory of rational
self-interest" to provide them with a most handsome profit. And they are
not disappointed.

I await with eager expectation the forthcoming public announcement
that the Institute for Creation Research supports the placement of the
following warning label on all medication approved by the FDA:

"WARNING: This product has been conceived, designed, and tested using the
theory of evolution as its scientific model. Use of this product
constitutes acceptance of the validity of the theory of evolution before
both God and man. Anyone using this product does so at their own spiritual
risk."

Arthur Johnson
johnson@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu