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To: freespirited
You don't disprove a theory by proclaiming it is not science

No one is trying to disprove the theory of evolution, or silence it being taught in public schools.

What is your point?

61 posted on 03/27/2009 8:23:53 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: laotzu
No one is trying to disprove the theory of evolution, or silence it being taught in public schools. What is your point?

OK let me try to explain. Earlier you asserted that evolution is not science but offered no basis for your claim. Now you say you are OK with teaching it in public school. This is confusing to me, because if you really believe it is not science, I don't understand why you would want it taught there.

Personally, I have no problem with discussing ID in high school biology class. I think it is a good opportunity to discuss the scientific method by challenging students to identify what ID advocates need to do in order to be taken seriously. (e.g. adopt falsifiable hypotheses, test them, analyze data, and publish findings). No matter how much one disagrees with an existing theory, one needs more than those criticisms to have a legitimate alternative theory.

I have been around academic science for a long time. I honestly see far more openness to dissent than people around here believe exists.

83 posted on 03/27/2009 10:05:45 AM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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