Kansas Board of Education Redefines Science
So, not really much to my surprise, the Kansas Board of Education voted to permit Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution in school curricula. Ok, so I guess we can peddle the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory of creation next, but anyway... What really caught my eye was the last line of the article:
"In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena."
Whatwhatwhat? They redefined science? So now we can use science to search for supernatural explanation of phenomena??? Have these people heard of The Enlightenment? Ok, maybe not the best example, there were a lot deists, etc that came out that. Scientific Method, anyone? Hello? Bueller? Hello?
I'd love to see how they empirically test their hypotheses to explain supernatural phenomena. [article]
"In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena."
Whatwhatwhat? They redefined science? So now we can use science to search for supernatural explanation of phenomena??? Have these people heard of The Enlightenment? Ok, maybe not the best example, there were a lot deists, etc that came out that. Scientific Method, anyone? Hello? Bueller? Hello?
I'd love to see how they empirically test their hypotheses to explain supernatural phenomena. [article]
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But the deists were a big part of establishing the scientific method. Even those of strong faith (Newton, etc.) were driven by wanting to UNDERSTAND HOW ALL THIS WORKS (in other words, natural explanations of phenomena).
And they are rolling over in their graves right now.
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