Re: Can any Darwinist in the forum produce an argument showing

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:23:08 -0400, r norman <r_s_norman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:16:07 GMT, Ye Old One <usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:22:54 +0100, Ernest Major
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In message <c0b7b4hqoi8do0tglkdp4mc20pl7n71rnn@xxxxxxx>, Ye Old One
<usenet@xxxxxxxxx> writes
If you did you would see that demanding that students pledge
allegiance to the god of science is entirely out of place as an
educational objective or as something to be used in evaluating the
students performance.

There is no god of science.

Are you incapable of recognising an obvious metaphor?

Was it one?

You seem to have elevated science to the status of godhood by
requiring that students bow in obeisance to it.

Please, don't talk stupid.

I don't know of any
reasonable biology department that lists as one of its educational
objectives to have students swear their belief in the truth of what
they have been told and no reasonable instructor should ever fail a
student for simply saying they don't believe a portion of the material
to be true.

I would, and have, failed people who clearly show they have not
learned the facts. I don't teach very often these days, I mostly give
the occasional lectures. My own field is cosmology, for someone to
turn round and say that they do not accept the Big Bang would earn
then a fail. Argument of fine details is OK, but to reject the core
fact would show they have not learned what I taught.

--
Bob.

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