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Old 24-05-2009, 10:20 PM
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Great minds think alike Rob . You don't happen to be a science teacher as well do you? I think the biggest problem is many people do not understand the nature of science or scientific method (which I am trying to defend here) but would rather cling to facts and truths rather than accept uncertainty. I spend so much time trying to drum this into my students, everything is open to change simply because it must be as a direct consequence of scientific thinking itself. Nothing is proved only evidence gathered to suggest a possible explaination.

Mark
Did a science degree years ago but ended up as a maths/computing teacher with a spattering of science. The irony is my two daughters have absolutely no interest in it and are absorbed in the Visual Arts.

Rob.
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