When it come to publicly defending the hardiness of science , a baseball game newsman might not seem like the most obvious champion of the truth . ESPN MLB analyst Keith Law recently responded to tweets place out by his co-worker Curt Schilling , who question certain aspect of evolution . The point presented by Schilling , a three meter World Series hotshot , were vernacular — yet fundamentally flawed — misconception about phylogeny , so Law interpose with some reason :
@gehrig38@zoowithroyThere are 100 of transitional fossils on phonograph record , Curt.http://t.co/cmTiqzhtC5
— keithlaw ( @keithlaw)November 13 , 2014
Law also extend on to try and explicate that there are n’t transition fogey between species that did not descend from one another . For exercise , since military personnel did n’t settle from scallywag , there evidently would not be any transition dodo between the two .
badly , if someone says phylogenesis is wrong because there are n’t fossils between monkeys and serviceman , find a monkey and strike him with it .
No , I wo n’t . Science is boundlessly more important . “ @toddhampton:@keithlawGetting into science now huh ? Stick to baseball . ”
alas , it appears as though ESPN felt the same way as Law ’s opposition . As a answer , Law was suspended from Twitter over the debacle , though Schilling was not . Deadspin contacted ESPN for a statement regarding the hanging , though ESPN unsatisfactorilyresponded , “ Keith ’s Twitter suspension had absolutely nothing to do with his persuasion on the field of study . ”
“ Keith Law got suspended from Twitter for publically arguing the point I think , it surely was n’t for his opposing view . I like Keith , just thought it odd he ’d desire to publicly beak that engagement , though I had zero problems with it ESPN took activeness . I really think they would freeze me as well , was expecting it . ” ( In his gossip part , he continued to make statements that instance that he has virtually no intellect of middle shoal level biology or chemistry . Do n’t take the bait , Keith ! )
Eppur si muove .
— keithlaw ( @keithlaw)November 24 , 2014
transformation : “ And yet it move . ” If you ’re not familiar , this parentage is attributed to Galileo , allegedly say in brief after he had been sentenced to house arrest and forced to recant his statements about Earth not being at the center of the solar system . Essentially , the line means that the truth exist , regardless of any attempts to conceal it or say otherwise . Just like Galileo , Keith Law was basically tell “ sorry not sorry ” for siding with scientific evidence .
Well done , Keith .
