Re: Gore Supports Science

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:18:59 -0400, "Lizzardwoman" wrote:

... the idea that the earth is supported on the back of turtles
should be taught in the same class. All such ideas need airing IMO to show
why they obviously don't belong in science class.

The turtles along with the Enuma Elish (and its relationship to Babylonian
astronomy), Pangu's separation of heaven and earth (Chinese), Aristotle,
Ptolemy, Pythagorean doctrine, Kepler, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein,
Hubble, Hoyle's steady-state theory etc. can all be addressed cogently in
a "History of Cosmology" course. Most of the examples of such courses
I've encountered over several decades have been in undergraduate
university physics or astronomy curricula but were open to a broader
audience than other courses oriented toward the departments' majors.
The one I took in the mid-seventies (taught by a Bell labs
astrophysicist), with a touch of Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific
Revolutions" thrown in for good measure, was a blast.

--
Best,
Ben Turner, Mare's Reach

"Let the science and research of the historian find the fact
and let his imagination and art make clear its significance."
--George Trevelyan

--
Best,
Ben Turner, Mare's Reach

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