Check out Dick’s response to Laura Meckler in the Wall Street Journal

Dick Rifind, Director of Naturally Obsessed, responded to Laura Meckler’s March 24 article in the Wall Street Journal, “Obama’s Mission: Serving Faithful and Nonbelievers Alike” Check it out here!

DICK’S COMMENT

Why is the Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler perplexed that President Obama, despite being a deeply religious person himself, declares his reliance on science to support decisions in his administration? (Wall Street Journal, March 24, “Obama’s Mission: Serving Faithful and Nonbelievers Alike.”) The role of science is to answer questions on how nature works; science does not deal with questions on why nature works. It all comes out in my documentary film, “Naturally Obsessed: the making of a scientist”. See www.naturallyobsessed.com . In the film, a young scientist-in-training is blocked in his attempt to understand how a particular human metabolic control protein works. But he resolves his dilemma by delving into what he calls “nature’s notebook” — a record of the increasingly complex form of the protein over the many millions of years of evolutionary history. Finding a primitive, and so simpler, version of his target protein in yeast cells, he is able to produce a stunning three dimensional visualization of the arrangement of the thousands of atoms that constitute the protein. It happens on-screen, so that the viewer of the film can see the actual physical evidence for the continuity of genetic information from the time of our most remote ancestors! The proof, as the adage goes, is in the pudding, and depends in no way upon one’s personal believer or nonbeliever status. This is why our president functions equally well both with his personal religious beliefs and with science as his tool for progress in governance of our great nation.