08-19-2008, 02:23 PM
No, I'm not trying to get people to see my way. That would be Michael's doing. I'm just trying to show people who challenge my thoughts why I believe in what I believe. I don't do that in the public sections because I realize most people don't want to openly debate because they're made up on their minds. I'm just trying to debate with what I know here because this private section looks like an open discussion.
Edit: Some people might say I'm indoctrinated or mind controlled because I'm in college. Not to brag, I attend the University of California, one of the top rank schools on the west coast, and indoctrination is far from it. There's a reason why UC is top rank; We do not resurgitate facts from textbooks. If you can't find flaws in accepted theories, then you won't get anything above a C-. We have to criticize everything. It's true that as courses progress, there seems to be more indoctrination, because people have to agree on common things, or there would be no lesson plan. But by then, you're convinced most of the theories in your discipline are pretty flawless because you applied your critical thinking. When we become graduates, we have more tools to prove that current theories are wrong. This is how scientific progress is made.
There is no elite that dictates the dogma in science. There is only open debate and proving that your position is reasonable by applying what you see in the world around you, etc, etc. Barbara McClintock discovered something hugely important in genetics in the 1940s that would change the genetics dogma, but her research is not accepted. This isn't because of scientific dogma, but because her paper was poorly written. Only in the 1980s, when another scientist rewrites her explanation that changed scientific dogma at that time, did Barbara win a Nobel Prize.
There's no dogma or mind control or indoctrination in the college institution, so don't say I'm mind controlled because I took those college courses about economics and government.
Edit: Some people might say I'm indoctrinated or mind controlled because I'm in college. Not to brag, I attend the University of California, one of the top rank schools on the west coast, and indoctrination is far from it. There's a reason why UC is top rank; We do not resurgitate facts from textbooks. If you can't find flaws in accepted theories, then you won't get anything above a C-. We have to criticize everything. It's true that as courses progress, there seems to be more indoctrination, because people have to agree on common things, or there would be no lesson plan. But by then, you're convinced most of the theories in your discipline are pretty flawless because you applied your critical thinking. When we become graduates, we have more tools to prove that current theories are wrong. This is how scientific progress is made.
There is no elite that dictates the dogma in science. There is only open debate and proving that your position is reasonable by applying what you see in the world around you, etc, etc. Barbara McClintock discovered something hugely important in genetics in the 1940s that would change the genetics dogma, but her research is not accepted. This isn't because of scientific dogma, but because her paper was poorly written. Only in the 1980s, when another scientist rewrites her explanation that changed scientific dogma at that time, did Barbara win a Nobel Prize.
There's no dogma or mind control or indoctrination in the college institution, so don't say I'm mind controlled because I took those college courses about economics and government.
