What to teach in schools (What should be taught in schools?)

by David Turell , Monday, September 19, 2011, 18:30 (4813 days ago) @ dhw

An article in today's Guardian reports on a call to the British government by 30 prominent scientists (including Attenborough and Dawkins) to stop the promotion of creationism and intelligent design in schools.-> This would be a wonderful subject for epistemological investigation. Theories accepted by whom?-> In my view, it is totally in order to teach evolution as a scientific theory (not fact), and it is totally in order to point out the possible flaws in some of its arguments. All that is needed in schools, folks, is a sensible, well-balanced, genuinely scientific approach, videlicet an agnostic approach.-Ah, the picket fence again. Don't you recognize what I am doing in the Nature's Complexity thread? How can it be that complex starting from inorganic matter? Because it has to be to create life as we know it. Where did self-correcting mutations, invented by the living organisms come from? If they arrived initially by Darwin's hunt-and-peck random mechanisms, how did they survive the initial mistakes to arrive at the perfect DNA formula? These genome processes had to be there from the beginning. Where did all the information come from in the layer upon layer of genome codes we are finding? My answer as always is our friendly UI.