Comments on: Take Nobody’s Word for Anything – Especially Bob Brockie’s

By: bethyada

bethyada — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:24:00 +0000

But to the meat: true scientists question all authority, trusting only to experimental and verifiable evidence.

This is a joke. Evolutionism at it's heart is not experimental. The major component of evolution's grand scheme is historical science, not empirical science. It has more in common with forensics and archaeology than the hadron collider.

The only empirical component of Darwinism is natural selection which creationists subscribe to (and invented and explain better).

And here is a good argument why Genesis 1-11 is just as historical as 12-50.

By: bethyada

bethyada — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:05:00 +0000

Frankly I think that schools should be allowed to teach whatever the parents want. If they want their school to focus on sport, creationism, evolution, even astrology then let them. Even an evolutionist has advocated this (I can look for the link if you want it). So long a reasonable percentage wants a topic and there is the option of opting out.

Further, there is no real need to teach evolution at highschool, university is perfectly reasonable. If creationism is to be taught it should be voluntary, forced teaching of it by evolutionists will undoubtedly be a caricature.

By: HORansome

HORansome — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:52:00 +0000

“At the heart of Brockie’s argument is a mistaken epistemology and fairly naïve Philosophy of Science. Brockie contends that “true scientists question all authority, trusting only to experimental and verifiable evidence””

I just want to say that this is a disturbingly common view, especially among some of the Skeptics. I attended the Skeptics Conference in Waikato last weekend and a fair number of their lot think that all Science is is Naive Empiricism (sometimes in fairly ridiculous ways; Vincent Gray, for example, denied the Theory of Relativity because it was an untested assumption).