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Article #31726Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Sam Stone
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:55
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:55
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Daniel Packman wrote: > In article <p_rzd.7464150$6p.1175117@news.easynews.com>, > Sam Stone <sirian@mental.org> wrote: > ...... > > >>>>Keep your human "method" out of science[..] > > > I'm finding it difficult to follow your point. > > >>WHO designed "scientific" method? > > > The human origins of the scientific method are not > at issue. Oh? Why not? When a species determines its level of awareness, either morally, scientifically, or otherwise it is always pertinent to examine the process and see if it is inherently representative of the biases of its authors. > The point is that this objective process > of inquiry has proved sufficiently useful to society > that it is part of the curriculum. The point is that said "objectivity" is really the construct of a most "subjective" species. > This does not imply > that other pursuits, such as spiritual, have no value. That's nice. > Only that they are not objective nor universal in > apploication and therefore not appropriate for a > generally agreed to curriculum. You mean a "subjectively agreed to" curriculum... That vaunted objectivity was not machine born, and those components which now are still spring from human designed architecture.
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