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Kansas Challenges Definition of Science
nysus writes "Anti-evolutionists have made classrooms in Kansas a key battleground in America's culture war. Again. The New York Times reports they are proposing to change the definition of science in Kansas: 'instead of "seeking natural explanations for what we observe around us," the new standards would describe it as a "continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena."'" From the article: "In the first of three daylong hearings being referred to here as a direct descendant of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee, a parade of Ph.D.'s testified Thursday about the flaws they saw in mainstream science's explanation of the origins of life. It was one part biology lesson, one part political theater, and the biggest stage yet for the emerging movement known as intelligent design, which posits that life's complexity cannot be explained without a supernatural creator."
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String theory and quantium physics reliablity describes and predicts things?
... within each of its axioms
String Theory: does not (it is currently not proper science, but is instead a model that, although elegant, is fundamentally useless)
Quantum Physics: does (you are using a computer, aren't you?)
What does archaeology predict?
The past.
My point being is that each side (science/religion) thinks they are "correct". They are correct
Correct.
what/who is to say which axiom is "correct"?
Reality and reason.