/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1403688]

Fine, let us not teach creationism in the science classroom. But why not instead a required course for high school students—mandatory as well for all those grownups in the academy and clergy who themselves seem to have missed out on the relevant lessons—in the history and philosophy of science? No doubt the reigning evolutionary paradigm affords a way of envisioning our terrestrial environment, but to suppose it the only way, uniquely qualified to give genuine insight into the world around us, is merely to prove that one has never given two seconds thought to the question of what constitutes a fact—never realized that what we take to be an empirical given is always the result of many prior selections and interpretations, now embedded in the fossil record of an unexamined worldview.

[sage No.1403704]

GTFO with your sophistry, troll

[Anonymous No.1403726]

>>1403688

[Anonymous No.1403733]

>>1403688

I don`t understand.

[Anonymous No.1403764]

>>1403733

He's proposing a mandatory philosophy of science class.
What don't you understand?

[Anonymous No.1403824]

OP, I challenge you to get a group of teenagers together and begin a philosophical discussion. If you can stand their self-indulgent pattering for more than 15 minutes without raging or fleeing, I'll support your proposal.

tl;dr Teenage discussions are fucking insufferable.