“ We ignore public understanding of science at our peril. ”
Eugenie Scott.
Do you agree?
Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist, a former university professor and educator who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Since science is the main tool we use to understand the world today, allowing people to opt out of any attempt to understand it, is the same as allowing them to opt out of attempting to understand the world. Which is why people who find the world threatening, because fear is a marketable product for the increasingly powerful pop media despite the fact that in many ways the world has never been safer, want to a opt out of science.
And those who want to use them increasingly pander to that. Science has been naive in thinking that the more truth it discovered the more it would be loved, thinking that everyone valued truth just as the scientific community does, and failed to see that the more successful you are at finding truth the more you will be opposed by those interests lie in squashing it. It is naive to think that the value of truth will sell itself, or that success will not breed enemies.
Fernapple
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May 27, 2019
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Agreed. Even though science is significantly more advanced than it was 50 years ago, there is considerable more hostility towards science than there used to be. Not quite sure how we as a society let that happened. Some kids today think they have to choose between believing in God and believing in science. That's crazy, but common . Sad.
Heraclitus
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May 27, 2019
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They do not like science because it is Not OWNED by them. It only brings up other scary and worrying questions . It belongs to other people . My aim is to show people how science can be useful to each separate person. A difficult task I admit . Getting use to thinking the science way should be built up from the very simple e.g getting people to appreciate ALL the words in the set of science processes expressed elsewhere in this Group'S postings. There are a lot of other things involved also but I have no class on which to try my ideas so I have become a philosopher of science
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