To: mlc9852
No one questions mutation... unless you mutate too much. Creationists seem to allow mutation within kinds but not between kinds. Problem is, they give no clear definition of a kind, which makes their theory irrefutable.
Although, I do agree that much more critical thinking and scientific method courses, (or even one), would be *very* valuable in high school. It would seem to me that a course involving a scientific and critical investigation of spoon bending, ESP, mind-reading, and all the James Randi type investigations would be both valuable and fun. Presumably then you wouldn't need anti-evolution in science because they would already think critically about everything... science, religion, both sides, and everything else.
41 posted on
05/10/2005 5:42:58 AM PDT by
crail
(Better lives have been lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in the halls of palaces.)
To: crail
A Myth Busters class. Now that would be interesting. And quite difficult. Most anti-science types will not accept the concept of a double-blind experiment.
44 posted on
05/10/2005 5:47:03 AM PDT by
js1138
(e unum pluribus)
To: crail
Scientists argue about defining species, don't they? Scientists argue about all sorts of things. Does that make one side wrong and the other right? Who decides?
48 posted on
05/10/2005 5:51:33 AM PDT by
mlc9852
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