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I just read an article in the Brittish "Guardian" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne. They enumerate a great list of scientific controversies that should be taught alongside established theories in science classes (besides the evident "intelligent falling" of course .
Among the items in the list are such gems as teaching alchemy in chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class. A real good one (especially from a German perspective) is the suggestion to demand equal time for the theory that the Holocaust never happened in a class on 20th-century European history
What else can we come up with?
Another good point the article makes is the falsifiability of evolutionary theory:
As the great biologist J B S Haldane growled, when asked what might disprove evolution: "Fossil rabbits in the pre-Cambrian." Evolution, like all good theories, makes itself vulnerable to disproof. Needless to say, it has always come through with flying colours.

Posted on Thursday 01 September 2005 - 08:57:15 comment: 0
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