Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: donh

It would be a joint effort between humanities and science.


1,751 posted on 05/28/2005 9:26:38 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1750 | View Replies ]


To: HiTech RedNeck; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; Tribune7; marron; bondserv
. . . a joint effort between humanities and science.

Science without theology is a dead pursuit. Theology without facts and evidence is a fairy tale. Why folks seem so bent on compartmentalizing the process of education is beyond me.

The Trial of Galileo shows well how both church and science can err, and how both church and science can flourish when they intermingle. Neither of these two, given their history, can boast of perfection. Error is to be expected in view of our current condition.

The key to satisfaction in the pursuit of education is the allowance of free thought and free expression, with each observer having the right and capacity to accept or reject whatever propositions are made to reason as a result of having evidence.

A person can reject the proposition that 1 + 1 = 2, but he should not expect a vocation as banker. (A liberal Democrat, perhaps, but not a banker.) A person can reject the proposition that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, but he should not expect a vocation as editor of National Geographic.

Dogmatic evolutionists abhor the notion that such things as free thought and free expression should be allowed in public schools, but they are not the sole owners of public schools. When the state establishes public schools, and requires by law that all children attend, then the state must allow all views to be allowed lest it be guilty of violating the First Amendment.

A good many people are so hard-headed about the distinction between immutable facts and reasonable conjecture, that they squeeze "science" into a fruitless, dead, narrow dogma. There is a place for immutable facts, but, given the extent of human knowledge, that place is smaller than we think. Let reasonable conjecture be permitted even in "science" class, but let it also be qualified as such.

The best solution to this whole controversy would be to abolish public schools altogether.

1,806 posted on 05/29/2005 1:11:45 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1751 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson