John Clegg wrote:
> But you keep avoiding the nub of my argument, which is a sensible
> strategy I am sure! I am concerned about closed minds and the teaching
> of closed minds. So asking me to identify a fossil is entirely specious
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Original posting:-
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What really gets my goat is that they teach Global Warming in schools as
if it were holy writ. I want them to teach enquiry, balance, scientific
method.
They do the same with Darwinian Evolution. A theory so full of holes it
invites inquiring minds to dig around it, but try suggesting that in a
school!
"
You assert repeatedly that asking for a hole to be identified is
specious, it sounds rather as though you want some brand of creation
theology taught in school as if it were holy writ, or else that this is
simple trolling.
It seems optimistic to expect the educational policy of teachers,
schools and the country to turn around without at least one example on
offer.
I have not been to school for some time, but it did not seem to me then,
nor when my daughters learned science, that they were being taught
closed minds, by closed minds, or with anything other than an
Enlightenment-derived instruction to consider the observed world and teh
acocunts of it they were given.
And this seems to me to be right, and effective.
Evolution, however, independently, is a well-tested and reasonably
accepted theory which accounts for all that must be accounted for.
(Unless, of course, someone has something that it does not account for
to show us... )
Unless the working definition of a closed mind is one which askes
repeatedly and with some specificity for indications that an alternative
view is plausible, or more correct, mine is not and neither in general
is that of those regarding evolution as how we got here.
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> >> > To again turn it around and offer a chance to introduce
> substance,
> >> > what
> >> > element of evidence presented as being compatible with, or
> >> convincing
> >> > about, Darwin's theory of evolution and its later
> developments has
> >> > not,
> >> > ever, had a proper open minded evaluation?
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