[Right Wing Professor]

Why is evolution the only topic in American education not open to criticism

We generally don't ask students to 'think critically' about other established scientific laws either. By and large, we regard them as well-established by a large body of experimental work, to which undergraduate students don't have extensive access; and 'critical thinking' about such laws is not a useful pedagogical technique.

[poindexters brother]

We generally don't ask students to 'think critically' about other established scientific laws either. By and large, we regard them as well-established by a large body of experimental work, to which undergraduate students don't have extensive access; and 'critical thinking' about such laws is not a useful pedagogical technique.

Thinking critically about Euclid's 5th postulate has given us the wonders of non-euclidean geometery.

[edsheppa]

We generally don't ask students to 'think critically' about other established scientific laws either.

I should hope we do. Critical thinking is essential to truly understanding them.