How Can Evolution Be Taught As Science?
Posted on: Friday, 15 April 2005, 15:00 CDT
I enjoy reading the articles on evolution vs. creation, for it raises quite a question. Science is supposed to be knowledge that can be measured with precise skill. And theory, being only an unproven assumption.
So if evolution is an unproven assumption, how can anyone possibly call this science? And then assume again that it is right to teach these assumptions as science in our schools?
Scientists forsake the very meaning of the word science to embrace something that they or anyone else can never prove, which is what science is supposed to be all about, the ability to prove something.
Many years ago, I heard evolution taught in a science class. And after hearing all the theories of where this old world came from, I asked the teacher a question. I asked if there were any theories on where the sun came from. His answer was no.
I couldn't help but wonder. Surely, they could come up with just one more theory.
Tom Adcock
Bloomington
Source: Pantagraph
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