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How can we expect to be competitive globally if we ignore two important pieces of science that every other globally competitive nation teaches?
by warfangle 14y ago
How can we expect to be competitive globally if we ignore two important pieces of science that every other globally competitive nation teaches?
- genwin 14y agoThe theory of evolution has pretty much zero value in competing globally, the way I see it (although it's good to know). Global competition is a major contributor to climate change.
- ktizo 14y agoThe theory of evolution has pretty much zero value in competing globally, the way I see it This is absurdly myopic. Evolution affects not just all the life-sciences, but also the mathematics of evolution is finding new applications in software and engineering all the time.
- genwin 14y agoI've done genetic algorithms. Yes they employ the concept of evolution but it's something that can be understood in under an hour, purely from a programming perspective. Knowing the theory of evolution isn't required for someone to be skilled at machine learning algorithms. That's not to say schools shouldn't teach the theory of evolution; they should, alongside relativity and other things that can open one's mind but have virtually zero value for competing globally.
- warfangle 14y agoGlobal competition - currently - is a major contributor to climate change. The societies that learn how to be competitive without contributing to climate change will leapfrog every single other society in technology and wellbeing.