Malicex
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I went to a Christian school from preschool to the 4th grade. At the age of 12 or so, when I became more aware of other religions and saw that their faith and conviction was like my own, I realized human beings were full of BS. In junior high and high school, when I learned about the big bang, evolution, etc., I though scientists were just as crazy as Christians. The theory of evolution sounded absolutely ridiculous to me. I attribute much, if not most of this to the fact that science was taught much like a religion. That is to say, they basically just gave us list after list of facts to memorize and expected us to believe them. And a lot of it sounded crazy.
I didn't start to appreciate science until I educated myself after high school. Instead of just reading about their conclusions, I read more and more about their observations, and how, based on their observations, they came to those conclusions. And I realized that I was coming to the exact same conclusions that they were when I read about their observations and experiments (which are observations as well). I also started reading more and more about the scientific process, predictive power, falsifiability, replicability, etc.. That's when it all made sense to me. All of the sudden, evolution, the big bang, relativity and so on, started to actually make sense.
The problem is that schools (at least the ones I went too), teach you what to think, instead of how to think. Science is not just some body of knowledge to memorize and take on faith. It's a process. It's a way of thinking. When I learned that, I finally learned what science was. I won't blame it all on school, I had my own shortcomings. But they need to focus more on science, instead of the body of knowledge that was produced by science.