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To: jennyp
So you are claiming there is unanimity among scientists that evolution is not just a theory?

Because if we are talking about it being a majority, then we are back to where I just tried to place us.

I believe that anything that is a theory should be taught as a theory with the predominant counter theories explored. There seems to be a real resistance to doing that, however, and that has always seemed strange to me. Intellectual vigor would seem to me to demand presenting and exploring competing theories.

24 posted on 10/30/2003 7:57:26 PM PST by William McKinley
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To: William McKinley
I believe that anything that is a theory should be taught as a theory with the predominant counter theories explored. There seems to be a real resistance to doing that, however, and that has always seemed strange to me. Intellectual vigor would seem to me to demand presenting and exploring competing theories.

Ah, but the key word is "predominant". Sure, creationism and/or ID makes a lot of noise in the culture at large, but within the discipline of the relevant sciences, there's nary a ripple. And that's not because of prejudice, conspiracy, nor as some claim, nihilistic scientists recoiling at having to answer to a higher authority figure than themselves.

26 posted on 10/30/2003 8:01:30 PM PST by jennyp (http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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