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To: Marie2
I’d be satisfied if the teachers/textbooks would not state the most current theories as facts, but as working hypotheses

Well, there's a difference between facts, theories, and hypotheses. I certainly wouldn't mind a science course that covered those differences and said that most of what we think we understand about how the universe works is theories. It's singling out evolution that I object to.

a few paragraphs detailing the most common objections to evolutionary theory and the most popular creation science arguments. These could be presented as theories, as well. I think that would be perfectly fair

It sounds fair, but objections to a theory and popular arguments do not themselves make a theory--they're not even hypotheses. Hypotheses are derived from observations, not from forcing observations to fit into a pre-existing belief.

84 posted on 04/16/2009 9:10:24 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

“Hypotheses are derived from observations, not from forcing observations to fit into a pre-existing belief.”

There are plenty of observations that form creation science, not Scripture alone.

You may not agree with the creationist interpretation of the observations, and I may not agree with the evolutionist interpretation of the observations. But observations galore exist in both schools of thought.


90 posted on 04/17/2009 12:12:19 AM PDT by Marie2 (The capacity for self-government is a moral quality. Only a moral people can be free.)
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical; Marie2
I certainly wouldn't mind a science course that covered those differences and said that most of what we think we understand about how the universe works is theories. It's singling out evolution that I object to.

It's the evos that single out evolution. The rest of us want it taught just as the rest of science is, that the ToE is a theory, just like the rest of science holds.

The ToE is the only theory that raises this kind of ire when challenged.

96 posted on 04/17/2009 5:56:16 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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