Science is a processs through which we as physical beings can more completely understand the rules of the physical universe. To our neolithic ancesters the supernatatural powers brought food on the hoof and on the vine. They brought the weather and the seasons, the earthquakes and the babies...and death. Science has taken up the task of understanding these and have done well. There are areas, though where science does not do well. To my mind comes a book called Autobiography of a Yogi. Either the writer was a fraud or a fool, or we take him at his word. He describes events that science cannot explain...yet.
As for Creationism...as I am from Pennsylvania I have a Judges ruling that its the same as Intelligent Design...it just isn't science. Science has a culture with rules of behavior, it has a language and the words have specific meanings. ID seeks to borrow this culture and language for it's own purpose, the general acceptance of Christianity in a sceptical Western world. Science students in the US and in India will get the same results if they use the same input. But with creationism they start from different sources...the Bible or perhaps the Bagavad Gita so they get different results. Neither source is provably right or wrong so both are unscientific. Science gives us a common starting point. It may be wrong, but it is scientific.
I happen to belive that the Universe was created at about 6 o'clock this morning coincident with my initial perception that I was awakening. Spread before me was a complete world that scietificaly was billions of years old. It wasn't of course...it just looked that way. How is this any different from a world started an any other specific date? Is it any more unreasonable to belive that my newspaper was created on my doorstep at the same time as the steps, than it is to belive dinosaur bones were created with the creation of a 6000 year old universe?
So, leave it be. Use science to explain the physical universe and leave the supernatural to explain the rest. But, don't teach the supernatural in the science classroom
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Science is a processs through which we as physical beings can more completely understand the rules of the physical universe. To our neolithic ancesters the supernatatural powers brought food on the hoof and on the vine. They brought the weather and the seasons, the earthquakes and the babies...and death. Science has taken up the task of understanding these and have done well. There are areas, though where science does not do well. To my mind comes a book called Autobiography of a Yogi. Either the writer was a fraud or a fool, or we take him at his word. He describes events that science cannot explain...yet. As for Creationism...as I am from Pennsylvania I have a Judges ruling that its the same as Intelligent Design...it just isn't science. Science has a culture with rules of behavior, it has a language and the words have specific meanings. ID seeks to borrow this culture and language for it's own purpose, the general acceptance of Christianity in a sceptical Western world. Science students in the US and in India will get the same results if they use the same input. But with creationism they start from different sources...the Bible or perhaps the Bagavad Gita so they get different results. Neither source is provably right or wrong so both are unscientific. Science gives us a common starting point. It may be wrong, but it is scientific. I happen to belive that the Universe was created at about 6 o'clock this morning coincident with my initial perception that I was awakening. Spread before me was a complete world that scietificaly was billions of years old. It wasn't of course...it just looked that way. How is this any different from a world started an any other specific date? Is it any more unreasonable to belive that my newspaper was created on my doorstep at the same time as the steps, than it is to belive dinosaur bones were created with the creation of a 6000 year old universe? So, leave it be. Use science to explain the physical universe and leave the supernatural to explain the rest. But, don't teach the supernatural in the science classroom