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Old 09-27-2010, 06:51 PM   #304
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Who sits in judgment of what truth is? To some, that the world is 6k years old represents "truth", to others, 4 billion years. (There's not much middle ground on this one. )

The whole controversy is about deciding which "truth" to promote. The arbiter seem to be democracy (50% +1).
Popular vote is no way to decide truth.

.....In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
..........— Stephen Jay Gould (1941 – 2002), American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science. Essay: "Evolution as Fact and Theory."

Our children deserve to learn what our best scientists and historians have discovered about how the real world works; not how some people--or even the majority--wished it worked.
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