Comments on: Did Science Win? http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2008/did-science-win/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Steve Shivers http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2008/did-science-win/#comment-75054 Steve Shivers Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:24:55 +0000 http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2008/did-science-win/#comment-75054 Science won because we succeeded in keeping non-scientific and decidedly religious doctrine out of the science curriculum. You actually hit the nail on the head in your statement "The controversy is between a worldview which allows only for naturalistic explanations ..." That is what science is! Science is restricted to naturalistic explanations because these are things that can be observed and studied, either directly or indirectly, through hypothesis-driven experimentation. The point here is not that super-natural "worldviews" should be kept out of the schools, but that they do not belong in the science curriculum. Science won because we succeeded in keeping non-scientific and decidedly religious doctrine out of the science curriculum.

You actually hit the nail on the head in your statement “The controversy is between a worldview which allows only for naturalistic explanations …” That is what science is! Science is restricted to naturalistic explanations because these are things that can be observed and studied, either directly or indirectly, through hypothesis-driven experimentation.

The point here is not that super-natural “worldviews” should be kept out of the schools, but that they do not belong in the science curriculum.

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