Have we learned anything in the last 50 years?
If we make a new scientific discovery tomorrow, should we exclude it from any future text books?
If we should stop science books at an arbitrary point in time, when should we stop history books? Did history stop at the end of Acts, and should we not teach out children about the history of the United States?
You are baiting and switching here. We were discussing science which we both know is moving forward and yet some known opinions are still presented as fact. For example the Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny.
You switched to U.S. history. But to answer the question about U.S. history, it would be nice if the revisionists were not allow to insert their lies.
RM, you make some good points. In order for science to succeed we must we willing to reject failed models. The difference between you and I is apply this principle beyond science to include disciplines such as history and theology.
Recapitulation theory is an excellent example of an 1800's idea, like communism, (recapitulation theory published in 1899, communist manifesto published in 1848) that now finds itself of the scrap heap of history.
How about we do the same for this:
Leviticus:
21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
21:20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21:21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
