Abstract
The Bulletin's prevailing concern is with dangers to human well being and even survival that have scientific-technological roots or ingredients and seldom any self-evident solutions. By implication, scientific research itself may sometimes be projected more as threat than promise. At the same time, current legislative challenges to the teaching of evolutionary science by “creation scientists” may indicate a lack of widespread public understanding of the difference between the creed of science and other kinds of creeds. Professor Sherwood L. Washburn speaks indirectly, but eloquently to both of these issues.It is difficult for non-specialists to form an impression of how, and how much, progress occurs in most scientific research. The overall pace of the advance is easily obscured by multiplying new discoveries, new questions and new methods. Among them often are false leads that for a time set unproductive directions. To convey the zigzag path of accomplishment across decades as a vivid, intelligible patte...
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