Good Omens in Dying Science Education

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Pentcho Valev - 31 Jan 2006 07:21 GMT

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/30/EDG
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"Teaching the controversy necessary to teaching science"

"While we may be perfectly justified in considering those who still
desperately cling to classic Newtonian physics as wrong, it would be
folly to answer a student's confusion by exclaiming outrage that he or
she could give credit to such a faulty notion and banning any further
mention of Newton and his obsolete laws."

Pentcho Valev

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Geoff - 31 Jan 2006 08:49 GMT

> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/30/EDG
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> she could give credit to such a faulty notion and banning any further
> mention of Newton and his obsolete laws."

Too bad this doesn't apply to teaching ID. Newton's Laws are
the basis for modern Relativity Theory. They are not obsolete.

The real analogy would be that Newton is to modern theory
what Darwin is to modern evolutionary theory.

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mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu - 31 Jan 2006 08:59 GMT

>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/30/EDG
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>The real analogy would be that Newton is to modern theory
>what Darwin is to modern evolutionary theory.

Yep, right.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same"

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Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / January 2006

Good Omens in Dying Science Education