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Re: Critical Thinking
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:10:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
> If you consider that creationsim has been around since Moses penned the book
> of Genesis - and even before that though it wasn't written down, I guess you
> can call creationism "current".
> By your standard, then, most every theory known to man is "current".
Not true! The Geocentric earth theory is certainly not current to any
rational way of thinking, nor is the reproduction-by-stork theory. I label
creationism a current theory because certain camps are actively promoting
its inclusion in public school curricula, whereas few scholars today assert
that equal time should be devoted to phrenology.
> Also, "scientific", which you refer to, is a funny thing - it gets redefined
> every time someone has evidence that doesn't fit the accepted framework. (I'll
> not get into that).
But I'll be happy to! "Scientific" doesn't change; what you're getting at
is that science's understanding of the universe changes, and that's as it
should be. I discuss this elsewhere in the thread.
Dave!
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| (...) Ah - "current" to you means currently in vogue, whereas to me it meant recent. Ok. (...) Sorry, science does change - at least the way we understand it. (Science is not how we understand things. Science is the framework we use to understand (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) If you consider that creationsim has been around since Moses penned the book of Genesis - and even before that though it wasn't written down, I guess you can call creationism "current". By your standard, then, most every theory known to man is (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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