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it's a school of thought, but more in the realms of philosophy, as theres no way of showing it EVER, due to the nature of their argument
it's like teaching the 'what is the meaning of life?' when that sort of debate is best left to philosophy
there is contested theories, most are too complicated, and there is only a debate because it's only a few small groups working on it, and thus they all think they're right, when most foten it lands up they're all right in some respects
they're not though, they're teaching it as a point of controversy in science. like when the church tried to shut up everybody who didnt agree with galen. i think its important to know about the way different ideas and developed in science just as well as the ideas themselves. othewise why would they tell you who discovered whatever.
"back in the day, people belived the literal bible version of the beginnings of life, as being the world created in 7 days and anainla dand humans were placed on the earth, in thee same stasis as they are today, then Charles Darwin proved his theory of evoltuion and this is the scienticificaly accepted theory of life today, now onto what evolution means and is about....
evolution isnt 'proven' as per such, it's just a highly usable theory that actually works to a large extent, obviously it isnt the whole picture - as for example some creatures lives in synbiotic relationships but evolution as a general idea does work and make sense also (which is rare)
and the ocr curriculum says what you said anyway i.e it provides a context from where these ideas came and why he was initially discredited
Missing out the most important part then?
Evolution is the result of something, not the cause.
As for the maths connection which placebo mentioned - maths only works because we all believe it does. Who says that one plus one equals two?
Prove it.[/klintock]
lol maths works, its a construct but its one that improves modelling of scenarios and can be employed to fantastic use
it's not real as per such, none of the chemistry i learn looks like the pictures i squiggle, however it used to for the purpose of getting relationship and thus being able to predict
science in itself is a method tuhs you cannot teach religious stuff in science classes, leave that to philosophy etc
Just because if you add chemical a to chemical b and get reaction c isn't just science. There is a reason why they interract in such a way and science cannot explain that away on it's own. Design may have a part to play/
BTW On the subject of ,aths - one plus one doesn't necessarily equal two either. You have to ask one what?
It's value is in it's usefulness.
Creationism is quite useless as a testable theory. Without a test it's assumed to not be anything approaching fact.
Proper science seeks to predict the future based on a whole boatload of experimentation, and a willingness to change your mind at the first whiff of new evidence.
What can you predict with creationism?
So it's a theory you cannot subject to the scientific process, and therefore it's no more a part of science than wondering how fast unicorns can travel.
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