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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 22, 2012, 09:33 |
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I think it stinks if the professor was fired for being skeptical. I believe in man-made or at least man-influenced global warming, but even still...
It's a theory... it's pretty much a scientist's job to challenge a theory until it can be sufficiently proven or disproven. To simply accept the status-quo "just because" is quite hurtful to our knowledge of the universe.
I'm not saying a scientist should then support or teach creationism as a science which (as much as fundies deny) is not grounded in ANY science.
But to challenge or be skeptical of a theory that, let's face it, is going to be *really* hard to 100% prove one way or the other... I don't see that as terrible.
And certainly not a fireable offense.
In science, it's technically just as exciting to disprove something as it is to prove something... because either way we've LEARNED something about the universe.
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