Comments by Harold Kroto (thanks for the link Tim)
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... Professor Kroto - based at Florida State University - is not in Australia to talk about climate change. He wants to talk about science and why it is important not to let it drift into the zone of ideology and belief, rather than reason and evidence.
''Science is totally misunderstood … It is the only philosophical construct that we have to determine the truth with any degree of reliability, and that requires evidence, which elevates it to a different plane - it elevates it to something that every child should have,'' ...
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''[Science] can't be a belief system, because belief by definition is to accept something without evidence,'' Professor Kroto said. He pointed to the push in some parts of the US to teach creationism alongside evolution in schools.
''There is no theory which is more proven than evolution and the evidence for evolution comes from every discipline within the sciences,'
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