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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

I said that current science EDUCATION in public schools does not necessarily promote individual question in regards to the theory of evolution, not that science does not promote questioning.

My whole beef is that science DOES promote questioning, and so that mainstream science education should ALSO promote this questioning, but it is clear from any 9th grade biology text book that this is not the case, them say the Darwinian Evolution and Natural Selection IS how the universe came to be, not that is is a POSSIBILITY. Kids need to know that not everything the book or adults say is true, and science of all subjects is supposed to be the subject which encourages this, but that is not the reality of many science classrooms today..

the dumb cop fuckwad is not burning books because "they do not ask questions."

he is burning them because they teach darwinism.

you have to realize also that science could be divided in two parts:
1) the experimental method
2) the knowledge that derives from it

the experimental method teaches you to question things, the accumulated knowledge of science is indeed presented as "scientific fact", but usually in a historical context that demonstrates is fluidity-- e.g. the whole debate about planetary systems, the changing theories of the universe, the "wave vs. particle" theories of light. even a couple of years ago there was this fucking outcry among dumb people because astronomers decided that pluto was not a planet, after all.

scientific knowlege is also presented along with its limits-- the vast unknown things in the universe, the frontiers of science, quests for new theories, etc.

yes, scientific knowledge can get a little calcified at times, and dumb people (and bad teachers) think it's some kind of secular gospel, but even with those handicaps it is not, by far, by a million miles, not as dogmatic as the dumbfuck literal-interpretation school of bible reading that is trying to supress the teaching of evolution. not by a million miles. the dumbfucks, you see, do not set up an experiment to test the truth or falsehood of evolutionary theory-- instead, they claim the authority of an invisible man in the sky as quoted in an archaic book. dumbfuck and authoritarian and un-questioning indeed. fuck them, and their donkey progeny.