[extropy-chat] against ID

[gts]

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:05:40 -0500, Damien Broderick  
<thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> Astrology *doesn't predict anything*???

No better than does random chance, unless you have evidence to the  
contrary.

Someone here applauded the idea of opening science to any theory, natural  
or otherwise, with predictive power or not.  Okay, but as I mentioned here  
previously, the real question is more pragmatic: "What should public  
schools teach in science class?"

Teachers have only so many days in a school year to teach real science,  
and real science is about solutions to real problems. I think they  
shouldn't be forced to waste time and public funds teaching imaginary  
solutions to non-existent problems.

-gts