> Jeff Ricker wrote:
>
> >> In teaching the _science_ of psychology, we are trying to help develop
>
> >> in them a worldview where faith has no place.
>
I firmly believe that psychology is a science, and I have expressed my
frustration on this list at not being able to convince my students that this
is so, but I feel just as strongly that it is not my job to promote a world
view where faith has no place, and that in fact it would be inappropriate to
do so. Why do science and religion have to be mutually exclusive? As
several others have already stated, science and religion are dealing with
different realms.
Rick Froman wrote:
> I thought we were attempting to show them to respect the important place
> that the scientific method holds in the realm of epistemology <snip>I try
> to teach my students that there are empirical questions (has the abortion
> rate dropped in relationship with the crime rate?) and value judgments (is
> abortion the right choice to make?) and possibly other kinds of situations
> for which there is no empirical evidence available
>
Yes, and perhaps our task is to help them see the difference.
Kris Lewis
Saint Michael's College
Colchester VT
--who after several weeks off the list, feels like she has stepped into a
time warp--or the longest continuous thread ever..........
