At 02:39 AM -0400 5/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >How can we teach critical thinking without offering different views to >consider? And, the exercise loses its meaning if we are intent on telling the >student there can be only one right answer, which he has to get from the >instructor. > Evolution science is hardly a monolithic singularity. There's lots of debate and disagreement, and lots of scope to teach critical thinking.
Besides, there are actual facts in nature--however contestable they may be. There's a reason why "what" questions are distinct from "how" and "why" questions. Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth