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Archive for January 12, 2007
Beyond “I Don’t Know”
January 12, 2007 by Dr. Mc.
Thomas Henry Huxley coined the word “agnostic” to explain his position on the existence of God. The Greek origins of the word literally mean, “I don’t know.” The term has worked its way into all of science, but science as taught in today’s public classrooms is not agnostic. “I don’t know” should include “open to evidence either way.” The prohibition of evidence that God MIGHT exist is proof that a system is not agnostic, but at best atheistic. “I don’t know” would indeed be agnostic, and represent honest science. To say, “I don’t WANT to know” is more fitting to atheism, and would not be honest science. But when public school teachers are prohibited from allowing students to consider all scientific evidence, and in fact are steered to believe there is no other evidence, we have moved beyond the dishonest science of “I don’t want to know,” to , “I don’t want YOU to know.” You think of a term for that.
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