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To: Lane3 who wrote (152230)12/21/2005 10:14:20 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 793955
 
You're right. So what? ID still isn't science. It isn't the job of science class to explain how the first life forms came into existence unless it knows, which it doesn't, or any other scientifically unanswered questions.

So your position is that unless science knows something, it can't mention it? Two problems with that.

One, Aristotle was doing science, and for many centuries this was considered a scientific question. I don't see any reason to tie outselves down to the notions of science developed only in the past two hundred years or so and ignore all the science done for millenia. That's arrogance of modernity.

Second, science really knows nothing except probabilities. Science doesn't KNOW that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow; all it can say is IF certain forces continue to act the same way they have been observed to act in the past, the probability is that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow. I know of very few true scientists who will say that they have 100% certainty about anything, because you can bet there's a good chance they will be proved wrong sometime down the road. Science classes teach a lot of things which are still theories under development, that look good under our present state of understanding, but who knows. If science had to be restricted to things that are known with 100% certainty, you could probably fit all of the science curriculum into about fifteen minutes, if that.
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