> -----Original Message----- > From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:55 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: RE: Discovery Magazine article on the candidates science > policies > > Did they teach me 2 different ways to solve a problem: evaluating the > problem and praying for the answer? > No, but oddly enough the praying for answers came naturally once I > learned > corporeal punishment was the price for wrong answers. I'm sure my > classmates would say the same. > > But on a more serious note, trying to learn how to do long division and > studying creationism vs evolution is a different ball game. > Since evolution is still just a theory, and not a law, why not present
I'm sorry, but this shows an ignorance of science. Evolution will never be "a law". Laws are for finite, distinctive facts - one "simple" thing. Theories (scientifically speaking) cover broad, general truths - they have lots of "moving parts" and many aspects of most theories are under refinement and controversial: the theory is "fact" but specific aspects of it may not be. Both a scientific theory and a scientific law are "facts", both are "true". The Theory of Evolution, Chaos Theory, the Theory of Plate Tectonics, Atomic Theory, the Germ Theory of Disease, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, the Theory of Relativity, Graph Theory, Biologic Cell Theory, The Kinetic Theory of Gases, Information Theory, Quantum Field Theory, etc - all "Theories". I'm not attacking you: you share ignorance of this with many, many people. But ignorance should never be a foundation for educational curricula. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275906 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
