Yesterday the yellow brick road.

[John Grehan]

Kipling Will wrote:

>I definitely agree with John that evolution is quite often wrongly
>presented as empirical fact.

I would add that I think its wrong to concentrate on evolution as
either theory or fact. Rather, I believe that the focus of evolutionary
teaching should be on methodology and research programs. I seem
to be in a very tiny minority with that view.

>There is no equivalence between "belief in God" (their particular one),
>an untestable and empirically empty concept, and evolution as an
>explanatory scientific hypothesis (I think a really good explanation).
>Somehow we have to convince people that these are not interchangeable
>and each has an appropriate way and place to be taught.

In my view teaching evolution as scientific methodology rather than
a dogmatic assertion of history might go some way to achieving this.
In the sense that yesterday (even the event a moment ago) is no longer
"empricial" reality, any account of the past might be considred as
untestable and empirically empty as that of god.

John Grehan