"However it seems to me that it would be useful if schools gave a bit of perspective on how science arose and the intellectual battles it had to fight"
agreed, but IMHO would be better to teach very generally (or about something we no longer really debate (such as flat earth)) rather than *just* when we look at evolution. The problem being that it makes people think that evolution is a special case, one where science 'may have got it wrong'. Which loses the fact that science always 'may have got it wrong' and explicitly welcomes falsifiability.
As for 'how weird would something have to be to not be possible (or reasonable) to have evolved' - I'm similarly a bit stumped as to how you might ever draw a line.
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Date: 2005-09-13 12:41 pm (UTC)agreed, but IMHO would be better to teach very generally (or about something we no longer really debate (such as flat earth)) rather than *just* when we look at evolution. The problem being that it makes people think that evolution is a special case, one where science 'may have got it wrong'. Which loses the fact that science always 'may have got it wrong' and explicitly welcomes falsifiability.
As for 'how weird would something have to be to not be possible (or reasonable) to have evolved' - I'm similarly a bit stumped as to how you might ever draw a line.