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To: tpanther
OR is your aforementioned either/or projection of extremes all about lock-step teaching, one way or the other, with no other possibility, the way you were programmed from the outset with no concept of a middle-ground?

I agree with you! We shouldn't have this either/or mentality when teaching "science." We should present astrology alongside astronomy and let the kids decide which they believe. We whould present alchemy alongside chemistry and let the kids decide which they believe. We should present creationism alongside evolutionary biology and let the kids decide which they believe.

Think how our nation's science and industry would thrive if our engineers weren't forced into the extreme lock-step of Newtonism, but were free to learn that intelligent falling is just as valid as the theory of gravity?

115 posted on 01/21/2009 6:50:15 AM PST by Bosh Flimshaw
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142 posted on 01/21/2009 11:31:49 AM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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