Splintering our Education System based on FAITH

I guess you haven't had this conversation with Faith yet. She finds it unspeakably rude that you don't simply take her word for every assertion she makes.

I hadn't seen that, but my comments did accurately reflect the substance of conversations had in this thread. It was literally referred to as "rude" to challenge an assertion.

I think the problem is that in America, we use the education you've completed as a guide to what you know, particularly in occupations where that knowledge is vital.I think what people are worried about is that, if there's all these different systems, with presumably different concentrations in different subjects, and they're all to be considered equivlent, then there's a real possibility that your doctor, for instance, might be totally lacking some crucial knowledge that he or she might otherwise have been exposed to.I dunno, I'm not that scared. As it stands now, there's already every possibility that your doctor skipped classes and cheated on his exams.

This is false. My wife is hard at work in the lab, as we speak, doing work that wouldn't be possible in the absence of the evolutionary framework.As they say, biology only makes sense in the light of evolution. It does very much affect the content of the biological sciences; it turns something that would just be basically bug collecting into a useful, predictive, and explanitory model.

Except that it isn't. It isn't a false model. It's an accurate and predictive model, and that's why its so universally accepted among biologists.

Hi. Refuted this already. To repeat - nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.Biology without evolution is just stamp collecting - i.e. a large collection of unrelated facts with no predictive power. That's not science.

That's because the facts, by themselves, are useless. It's only within an explanitory framework that the facts have meaning, that they gain usefulness and allow us to make predictions. Do just fine for what? Filling encyclopedias? That's not science.

Incorrect. Evolution has actually made possible scientific work that would not have been, otherwise.

Do what without it? Nothing. Facts without a framework don't serve any purpose. It's like a child's shell collection all tossed into a box. Sure it's nice to look at but its of no scientific value whatsoever.

Uh-huh.Well, keep telling yourself that. We'll be over here using the evolutionary theory to do real work, ok? Try not to get in the way.