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Guess what? America's schools can now teach a scientific subject with theories that can not be proven nor disproven, nor even be tested scientifically.

Scientific subject, explanation offered that can not be tested scientifically.

This is the major problem I had with Philosophy. A lot of questions that were asked thousands of years ago that still can not be answered today. This is because they can not be quantified, can not be tested, can not be proven right nor wrong in any way. In other words: A waste of time in a subject about science.

Science is about what we can learn through independently verifiable outcomes. Not about what we can believe that may happen in some other reality.

There is a time and place for everything.

Give science it's place and time.

And give beliefs it's place and time.

Let them respect one another, but never meet.

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I must sadly agree about us looking like idiots to the rest of the world. You know, in some countries they don't allow religion in their political systems. Seems to me we'd be better off doing the same.
 
Watcher74 said:
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There is a time and place for everything.

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"Intelligent design"

Sounds like a misuse of the word "intelligent". It also sounds oxymoronic... ;)
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you know, I was talking to my firend one day in the car, and here we are both science majors, me being a Micriobolgy major and she is a CLS major, and we are just throwing these words back and forth and we can understand each other. I just kind of chuckled because if an average american were to hop into our convo at any point they would npt have a clue. We just think everyone thinks like us ya know. But I remembered a survey that was done and how many people knew that the earth rotated around the sun and the number was extradorinarily low! We just take it for granted that this should be known!! And the kansas here just goes ahead and makes every statement about the southern states true! **** Bible belt! :bowing:
 
When I was in school they presented Darwin and prefaced it with this big speech about how it is scientific theory and that the creation of the universe could have come from a higher power alone or how they could both be right. Personally, I don't see what the fuss is about. I think extremists polarized on either end of the spectrum are wrong. Present both sides and allow people to choose how they want based on whatever litmus they would like to use against it. Separation of church and state is one thing, not allowing freedom of choice is another. I guess young people cannot make up their own minds. :rolleyes:
 
science is fine, but if you want to argue that they can't teach theorys, i.e. Inteligent design, then the THEORY of evolution can't be taught either.

Just because you believe in one set of theorys over another doesn't make either unproveable set of beliefs more scientific.

I just wish people would see this as it is, an arguement over which religion gets class time; Evolution, or Creationism.

As such this falls under the list of topics restricted from being discussed in GCC. I would report my own post to point this fact out if I could. Feel free to direct a mod's attention here.

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Don't I look the fool now that the first post has been edited. I should have quoted what I was responding to. I like what is now said, well except for what I hastily wrote :rolleyes: .
 
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Well, until recently, the post wasn't being taken in 'that' direction. So I let it stand. Does it now need to be locked? I'll hope not.
 
OrionGirl said:
Well, until recently, the post wasn't being taken in 'that' direction. So I let it stand. Does it now need to be locked? I'll hope not.
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I'm not sure how this post wasn't being taken in that direction from the beginning. That sure does seem to me what the article was about to begin with. That's MHO.
 
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