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To: Sun
I am against teaching scientific THEORIES in schools, when schools don't show both sides and allow students to decide for themselves.

I guess geography should showcase the Flat-Earth society?

533 posted on 11/14/2005 5:18:00 PM PST by WildTurkey (True Creationism makes intelligent design actually seem intelligent)
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To: WildTurkey

"I guess geography should showcase the Flat-Earth society?"

You are right to quibble, but devils advocate question: Why not?

Look, I was taught the Bohr model of the atom. And werent we ALL taught the precopernican views by Ptolemy as what was once believed? So why not 'flat earth' view? Many science and other textbooks have promuglated theories that turned out to be false. It is far more educational to explain 'here are multiple theories, here is the evidence for each' than to simply announce the truth, which leads to the illusion of science as something that happened rather than something that happens every day.

If you have confidence in your theory, you won't mind the competition in the marketplace of ideas.


542 posted on 11/14/2005 5:47:02 PM PST by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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