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Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?
Posted by anon on 5/05/08

    We teach other things in our schools that we KNOW are not accurate.
    For instance, we still teach and use the Bohr model of the atom
    because it is useful in making predictions about chemical
    reactions. However, we KNOW it is wrong. Why do we still use it?
    Probably because it does make useful predictions and quantum
    mechanics is far too hard for the normal high school students to
    fathom... and quantum mechanics is slowly being displaced by even
    more complicated theories.

    There are many other scientific certanties that have been proven
    false. We no longer think the earth is flat... we no longer think
    proteins carry the genetic information in the cell. No one person
    can say for sure that global warming is caused by man. I really do
    not see it the teacher's place to say "I'm right, your wrong" when
    we really do not have enough evidence to say that. Convictions are
    not reality.

     
     

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