Cornered by Mike Baldwin for January 22, 2010
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If you aren't too sharp, it's better not to fake it. Probably won't come out right. Sometimes... To unwind... I like to curl up by a fire and burn a good book.
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Rmom, veterinary science which includes nonnaturalistic diagnosis and treatment isn’t veterinary science, it’s faith healing. If your veterinarian is making decisions for others on questions of physics or cosmology, he’s exceeding his areas of expertise. Actual working physicists, astronomers, and geologists overwhelmingly reject any sort of “Intelligent Design” at the foundations of the physical world.
If you include supernatural explanations for physical phenomena in your course of study, you aren’t teaching science, you’re teaching religion/theology. That was the basis of the argument by which the Kansas guidelines were ruled against by the Supreme Court.
The Kansas protocols were designed to sneak superstition and magical thinking into the classrooms by “teaching the controversy” rather than teaching the science. Doing so isn’t science at all, it’s Social Studies.
It’s true; the teaching of science and the scientific method is biased against the superstitious, and if the schools don’t make an attempt to graduate young people who’ve abandoned superstition, they are doing a disservice to the common interest.
Coyoty, he’d heard that “burning CDs” is a cheap way to enlarge a music collection, but he still hadn’t made the switch from vinyl.