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Originally Posted by Iceman
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Originally Posted by Neutrino 123
Some things are worrying, however, such as the increased "creation science" in school curriculums, which have no basis in actual science, and are quite, shall we say, misrepresentative of many science aspects.
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quantum physics....one thing science keeps learning time and time again is they don't know squat....what they think is true is not what they thought not...is...introducing creationisim into school...yes....give kids all the info they can get and let them make they're decision...to teach children that science is the only solution to all things is foolish and proven wrong by science itself. |
So do we also make it mandatory to teach about the flying spaghetti monster?
http://www.venganza.org/ :p
Seriously, science has very strong claims to correctness. The fact that various scientific theories have been proven wrong (or at least incomplete), and that many other theories will also require changes in the future doesn't indicate that science is wrong. In fact, the opposite is true: every theory that has to be changed is a victory for science, because such changes happen because new discoveries are made that improve our knowledge about how things work, and get rid of old misconceptions. Science adapts to new findings, asks that theories have supporting evidence, and rejects what can be disproven. So it's very different from a mere belief. Science cannot claim complete knowledge and correctness, but it does strive towards it, adapting to new evidence. And it works pretty well, if you consider its achievements.
But if schools teach science not as this process of refinement, but merely as a disconnected set of facts that the student has to learn, those students could be forgiven for not noticing a difference.
Intelligent Design advocates something that you could call "the God of the gaps". Basically, whenever there is a gap in our understanding of the world, that means God must have been involved. So, before people understood electricity, it was explained as God being angry and destroying something, throwing a hammer, etc...
As science progressed, the number of gaps decreased, and with it the importance of this particular type of God. ID is just a bunch of people who feel the need to attack some domain of science to make people believe there are more gaps in our knowledge.
Of course, you are right that science is not the answer for everything. It offers knowledge, but people also need motivations for their actions, and such motivations are rather subjective.