> (…"the science is settled"). Science is only ever "settled" in the sense of "it looks stable for now".
My vision of TABULA is as a tool to show students what's possible. Not to chisel out idols to bow down to. And I mean it primarily for students. What I recall of school was enduring impatience with debates on matters where we knew the answer was known. We wanted to be told what was so and what wasn't. And when it wasn't, we wanted to be given one reason why not, to hurl back at critics. Battle cries, not debates. But some of the "reasons" we were given don't stand up to simple modelling. Like the reason why the human eye couldn't have arisen by blind chance. Or that natural selection can give rise to sterile worker ants (Darwin spent a lot of time on these topics: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22764/22764-h/22764-h.htm#page171 ). Maybe that's just the cultural bubble I was brought up in? I hope that's the case, and it's a bubble long burst. But I see little evidence of it with my children, and now grandchildren. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
