There are a few fascinating things in that article, if it is accurate.
In actuality, Wise asserts, science is not a product and should never have come to be understood as being "the answers," collectively, to the questions people ask. "Science is the way we find the answers to the questions people are asking," he insists. "It's a process."
In one sense, he is wrong, in that, in popular meaning, "science" refers to both the process and the product. But, on a deeper level, I largely agree with him. Certainly there must be some instruction on the basics of the things that science has established, but I tend to think that if more emphasis were placed on teaching the processes of science, it would be all to the good. Wise might not like the results, as I suspect it would result in broader acceptance of evolution and rejection of any form of creationism, at least as a scientific proposition. But for a very long time I have been distressed at the state of scientific instruction. Science is exciting. Science as taught in schools is boring.
Wise says he hopes to "focus more on the Christian world and how Christians should respond to the entire issue of origins."
If by this he is saying they should spend less time trying to argue about science, I say, "hurray!"
Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin
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