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This is the only portion of JC's comments that I would take
any issue with (see below).
I believe the opposite is true... It is not that teachers
teach science as "truth"... it is that teachers teach science
(if they do at all, but that's a topic separate from this
reply) as what it is... messy and changeable. Students are
brought up to regard things as "black and white" their
religion is inalterable; politics nowadays is us or them.
So how can science be understood when it changes every time
some scientist discovers something that contradicts what was
supposedly set in stone years ago? Listen to conversations
in classrooms and on tv... "Why do you "believe" in evolution
when Dr. X just found a fossil that goes against Dr. Y's
theory?" "You scientists don't know what's true... so why
should any of it be true?"
As if "truth" is inalterable and if anything is found not to
have happened the way one scientist said it did then the
whole thing is false.
On Feb 4, 2013, at 1:10 PM, John Clement wrote:
Part of theand math as
anti-science attitude stems from how schools teach science
if it were a received TRUTH, rather than something wedesigned based
on observation and logical thought._______________________________________________
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