Dewey

please explain how the teaching of science can produce this state of
affairs.

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"Dewey Dykstra, Jr." wrote:

> > Since scientists provide this rock-bottom
> >foundation for our lives, their *stewardship* is even
> >greater than a judge's, for all a judge can do is
> >decide based on the evidence, but the judge cannot
> >verify what the evidence is -- only scientists can do that.
> >
> >Now! If we live in a world where we
> >have very little idea "what's going on",
> >but must depend on *scientists* to tell us, how does this differ
> >from the role in past of The Roman Catholic Church?
>
> I agree with Brad McCormick's assessment of the situation and it's
> implications.  I would argue that this "state of affairs" is socially
> constructed in schools as a consequence of the way we teach; the way we
> teach science, in particular.
>
> Dewey
>
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> Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr.                 Phone: (208)426-3105
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> "As a result of modern research in physics, the ambition and hope,
> still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
> science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
> had to be abandoned."  --M. Jammer in Concepts of Force, 1957.
>
> "If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
> reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish
> what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense
> to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what
> reality is independent of a theory."--S. Hawking in Black Holes
> and Baby Universes, 1993.
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