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Article #31737Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Bama Brian
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:48
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:48
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Sam Stone wrote: > 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 problem for the Creationists is that the scientific method simply works whether one believes in it or not, while a belief in the Bible or in God as the Creator is a circular argument, with no basis whatsoever in fact. > >> 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. -- Cheers, Bama Brian Libertarian
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