Monday, May 16, 2005

Kansas Debate Challenges Science Itself

Yahoo! News article

"The Kansas school board's hearings on evolution weren't limited to how the theory should be taught in public schools. The board is considering redefining science itself. Advocates of 'intelligent design' are pushing the board to reject a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what's observed in the world.

"Instead, they want to define it as 'a systematic method of continuing investigation,' without specifying what kind of answer is being sought. The definition would appear in the introduction to the state's science standards."

The debate on what consitutes knowledge is obviously not limited to developing nations!

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