Should chemistry or alchemy be taught in science classes?
What's wrong with teaching both sides?
What's wrong with teaching both sides?
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DUDE! You can turn lead into gold?!
Essentially chemistry is the modern name for what used to be alchemy, but we actually know things on the molecular level now instead of just reactions that usually just changed appearances of things.
Anonymous
Alchemy!
America needs the Philosopher's Stone to end our economic crisis.
With it we could have all the gold we ever need.
America needs the Elixir of Life. That potion can cure any disease. We wouldn't even need a health plan after that.
Clearly Alchemy has much more potential than mere chemistry.
Anonymous
Allow me to play devil'sadvocate ( or God's advocate whom I would consider a devil if it existed)
Sir Isaac Newton seemed to think that Alchemy deserved equal time to science...He actually spent more time on Alchemy than he did science..
You may think that he might have learned from his results that alchemy was bullshit
Anonymous
Obviously alchemy(like creationism) has been debunked, but I think that a brief study on the history of alchemy would do our students some good.
Anonymous
Well why not? Alchemy is the precursor to chemistry. Who knows perhaps having an philosophical approach to chemistry can aid the chemist. The reason why Einstein was so successful is because he thought outside of the scientific box. If he was born in ancient times he would be an alchemist.