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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- What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/27/08, by cam.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/27/08, by anon.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/30/08, by Kevin.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/03/08, by BillofSC.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/03/08, by Joseph Stevens.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/04/08, by Darwin.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/04/08, by tamagosan.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Bill of SC.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Kevin.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Joseph .
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by anon.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by also anon.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/06/08, by Repeat after me: "I'm the boss, applesauce...".
- Re: To "repeat after me...", 5/07/08, by cam.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/07/08, by Darwin.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/08/08, by cam.
- Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/08/08, by Waski_the_Squirrel.
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