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To: Right Wing Professor
We generally don't ask students to 'think critically' about other established scientific laws either.

I should hope we do. Critical thinking is essential to truly understanding them.

115 posted on 03/11/2003 11:13:52 PM PST by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa
We generally don't ask students to 'think critically' about other established scientific laws either.

I should hope we do. Critical thinking is essential to truly understanding them.

You're teaching a university general chemistry course. You have a year and approximately 90 lecture hours to cover all of chemistry. You can find lots of typical syllabi and textbooks on google. Typically, you have one lecture and maybe one recitation to cover the second law of thermodynamics. Explain to me how you're going to effect 'critical thinking' about the second law, incorporating a reasonably comprehensive overview of the theoretical background and the experimental evidence.

Funny how allegedly hard-nosed conservatives turn into fuzzy thinking liberals when it comes to evolution. 'Critical thinking' is ordinarily a postmodernist code phrase. But then politics makes strange bedfellows.

142 posted on 03/12/2003 8:09:31 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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