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To: PatrickHenry
To me, the wording in that bill implies that science cannot be trusted...
Information that appears to be verified empirical data, but is not, shall be identified to distinguish it as separate from verified empirical data.

Since when is unverified empirical data presented as verified in a high school science class?

Teacher classroom instruction shall use the following best practices to support the objective teaching of scientific information and minimize dogmatism while promoting student inquiry, healthy skepticism, and understanding:

Since when is 'dogmatism' an issue in high school science classes?

When information other than verified empirical data is taught representing current scientific thought such as theory or hypothesis regarding phenomena that occur in the future or that occurred previous to written history, a critical analysis of such information shall be taught in a substantive amount.

'that occurred previous to written history' covers an awful lot of science that is now required to be critically analyzed.

This bill sounds like it's been written from the YEC playbook.

17 posted on 04/02/2006 11:45:58 AM PDT by ml1954 (NOT the disruptive troll seen frequently on CREVO threads.)
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To: ml1954
This bill sounds like it's been written from the YEC playbook.

In case you're wondering how a high school teacher is supposed to know "Information that appears to be verified empirical data, but is not," I think what they have in mind is the application of the Ken Ham "Were you there?" test.

21 posted on 04/02/2006 11:52:47 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
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To: ml1954
"When information other than verified empirical data is taught representing current scientific thought such as theory or hypothesis regarding phenomena that occur in the future or that occurred previous to written history, a critical analysis of such information shall be taught in a substantive amount."

This sentence, while seemingly impervious to English translation, seems to be repeating the same old canard about evolution being *just a theory* and therefore not like all the rest of science, which is *verified*.
24 posted on 04/02/2006 11:58:06 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("Things are not what they always seem.")
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To: ml1954
"Since when is unverified empirical data presented as verified in a high school science class?"

When promoting the philosophy of evolution. A really good example is the plate of skulls that is frequently posted here by evo propagandists.

40 posted on 04/02/2006 3:35:41 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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