sciam.com — Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor and director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University. Debates against ....Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.
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13eastJun 17, 2007
NO... plain and simple no. Keep your faith in your home and at your church/mosque/temple. The talk of integrating religion and science is getting absolutely ridiculous... there is nothing wrong with wanting to worship in any religion you want but people should learn to stop trying to impose their beliefs on others.
13eastJun 17, 2007
What about my statement makes you think that I didn't read the article? How about you read what I have written more carefully?I completely agree with Dawkins in that religion has no place in the classroom, especially with small children who are just starting to be introduced into thinking more analytically. Teachers shouldn't alienate people by outright offending them for their beliefs but I also think that it shouldn't taught side by side with science. Let religion be incorporated by the parents and clergy, and they should quit trying to undermine children's ability to learn by teaching them that all scientific teaching is heretic. A person can both be religious and scientific, without the values conflicting with each other.
quodlibetorJun 18, 2007
the description given doesn't really do the article justice. This is a conversation between two of the foremost science advocates in the world, Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins. One of whom works to try and educate the religious by showing them how accurate and interesting science is--Krauss--and the other who has made a name for himself blasting religion as a relic of the bronze age and promoting atheism, you might remember Dawkins from such things as that South Park mini-series where Cartman goes to the future? They exemplify the strident debate within the scientific community about the best way to educate the religious masses. A quote of Dawkins' from within the article: "If I tell somebody who believes the world is 6,000 years old that he is ignorant, I am paying him the compliment of assuming that he is not stupid, insane or wicked."
dooms13Jun 18, 2007Submitter
Yeah its kind of hard to do this article justice in the character limit set by digg