12 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Science is Uncertain
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.Folksonomies: creationism
Folksonomies: creationism
...it is easier to accept a dogmatic religion that removes the need to think. An Isaac Asimov quote.
25 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
School Kills Scientific Inquiry
Again, in the customs and institutions of schools, academies, colleges, and similar bodies destined for the abode of learned men and the cultivation of learning, everything is found adverse to the progress of science. For the lectures and exercises there are so ordered that to think or speculate on anything out of the common way can hardly occur to any man. And if one or two have the boldness to use any liberty of judgment, they must undertake the task all by themselves; they can have no adva...The structure of curriculum is to set a path and provide no deviation from it, but deviation from the path is the stuff of scientific discovery.