Seed Magazine Endorses Sen. Obama for President

Sci­ence is a way of gov­ern­ing, not just some­thing to be gov­erned. Sci­ence offers a method­ol­o­gy and phi­los­o­phy root­ed in evi­dence, kept in check by per­sis­tent inquiry, and bound­ed by the con­straints of a self-crit­i­cal and rig­or­ous method. Sci­ence is a lens through which we can and should visu­al­ize and solve com­plex prob­lems, orga­nize gov­ern­ment and mul­ti­lat­er­al bod­ies, estab­lish inter­na­tion­al alliances, inspire nation­al pride, restore pos­i­tive feel­ings about Amer­i­ca around the globe, embold­en democ­ra­cy, and ulti­mate­ly, lead the world. More than any­thing, what this lens offers the next admin­is­tra­tion is a lim­it­less capac­i­ty to han­dle all that comes its way, no mat­ter how com­plex or unanticipated.

 
Sen. Oba­ma’s embrace of trans­paren­cy and evi­dence-based deci­sion-mak­ing, his intel­li­gence and curios­i­ty echo this new way of look­ing at the world. And that is what we should be weigh­ing in the vot­ing booth.

There are many realms of human phi­los­o­phy, but the sci­en­tif­ic method of inquiry is the process which rules them all. We need lead­ers who can observe, the­o­rize, rea­son, and act1 on what hap­pens in the world around them.

1. Per­haps this is a good place to point out that it was a Arab/Persian who first laid down the ten­ants of what we call the Sci­en­tif­ic Method. So, I guess Sen. Oba­ma hav­ing some “Arab in him” might be to our ben­e­fit, huh? [↩]