Bush: 'Teach the controversy'

[Sweetie]

Originally Posted by Ari

Sweetie:
Semantics are a bitch.
When people talk about creationism, they are normally talking about the scientific theory of creationism.

I don't know that we have that controversy here. I grew up in a Fundamentalist town with a public school and an atheist science teacher who, no matter that he was really bright, wasn't a particularily good teacher. Anyways, the point, I don't remember being taught either theory to be honest.

So what you are saying that has been falsified is the theory that the earth is only 6,000 years old and the controversy is over the kids learning that theory side by side the theory of evolution? Or that theory as if it was a verifiable scientific theory which it's not.

Creation beliefs haven't been falsified but they are also not science but philosophy.

Yes, I already stated as much.

Occam's razor is often misunderstood. The razor basically says that all evidence being equal the simplest answer is often the best.

I can't see that Occam's Razor however, is any answer.

In the case of God and creation we have no scientific evidence for or against. Since lack of evidence isn't always evidence of absence, we can't use occam's razor to cut God out of the picture. At best it says, "need more information."

You maybe "can't" technically, but you also "can't" tell me that that isn't exactly what a scientific theory without enough philisophical questioning is trying to do.