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Originally Posted by HighOnHotSauce
I agree with you that the building blocks to where science is now should absolutely be covered. This is not the same thing.
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I was just responding to your claim that "God started it" doesn't belong in a science class. I think there are contexts when it does belong: history and current events being the salient ones.
Teaching controversies is important, imo. It's important to impart a grasp of the issues to students who might not otherwise get a nice, overall exposure, to face head-on any implications that science is trying to silence controversial views, and to spark interest in a subject that although full of crazy good times is often presented as dry and formulaic.
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Originally Posted by Ari
The most basic scientific foundation, what science is and isn't, is either lacking or being taught poorly.
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Is that the most basic scientific foundation, though? The demarcation problem is really complex, after all; scientists and philosophers of science have been arguing over it for years.