The dark age is coming back

Neutrino 123 · 10-29-06, 03:48 AM

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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.

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.

Quantum physics is a most excellent theory and can predict many things! The Standard Model (though unable to explain certain extreme phenomena) is one of the best and most accurate theories ever! Alot of the confusion about this is because quantum mechanics is often counterintuitive to our generally Newtonian life, and thus is very hard to interpret. It is of course, readily understood...from a mathematical point of view after two years prior background in college-level math and physics.

Science itself has a VAST body of knowledge that has proven again and again to be accurate. Sure, the is a HUGE amount of things that science does not know, or can't (yet) explain, but I hardly think that that is a strike against science.

Of course, theories sometimes change. As humans learn more, science generally improves, finding more and more accurate explanations for things. Indeed, a fundamental postulate of science is to never truly "believe" anything, but many things can certainly be loosely accepted as true unless some significant contradictory evidence arises.

It would certainly be nice to give children all the information we have, every false theory could lead to new and correct ideas. However, that is simply impossible for anyone to learn unless you have thousands of the best hard drives in your brain for memory storage. Science class needs to be restricted to things that are accepted by, well, science. Right now, there amount of evidence for evolution and a ~4.6 billion year old Earth is simply extreme. The amount of evidence for intelligent design and a young Earth is negligible.

For some laughs, look at this fundementalist Christan website (for kidz!):
http://objectiveministries.org/kidz/

The atheist part is the best (scroll down a bit). Now I have to go back to being bitter and grumpy...