On 28 Jan 2006 03:34:19 -0800, "Tournifreak"
wrote:



Scientific fact should be taught as fact, and theory should be taught
as theory.



Really all of it is theory. The question is the degree of credibility
at a point in time.

Science provides the best explanation (or sometimes alternative
explanations) for the observed phenomena.

For example, the common understanding used to be that the Earth was at
the centre as opposed to the Sun. Then better information became
available. It used to be believed that Pluto was the final planet
in the solar system - probably no longer the case.

There are only a limited number of things that can be described as
facts, and even those are on the basis that there is no currently
credible information to the contrary. One can never completely rule
out that such information might be discovered in the future.

It's also the case that material is presented for education according
to the educator's perception of the ability of the student to absorb
and understand it.

For example, most children ar dealing with arithmetic in primary
school but probably not Calculus.
Equally, as far as I am aware, the correlations between particles and
waves are a university subject and before that are treated separately.


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..andy