Emma Thorne: Christian School Textbooks DEBUNKED

[TheBlackAdder]

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She's great.

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[Cheezoholic]

1. She is, been on my subscription list for awhile n/t

[RKP5637]

2. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Warpy]

3. One thing she keeps dancing around without expressing is the difference

between the religious and the scientific basic mindsets.

Religious people want answers, truths that existed long before they were born and will still be there long after they die. It is possible to know all these truths. I can see how that would be very comforting and how it would be threatened by science.

Scientists have questions with few answers. They have hypotheses that might hold up for years or even centuries, but those hypotheses are subject to change as observational equipment improves, as math develops, and as our understanding slowly increases. Science is fluid, always changing and discarded hypotheses look silly (phlogiston, philosopher's stones) and new theories so exotic few understand them fully, at least at first.

I think it is very difficult to reconcile the two, they're hard wired. The best people can achieve is a sort of "well, isn't that interesting!" compartmentalization for science if they're religious and the same "god's in his heaven, all's right with the world" compartment for scientists.