This page has information about a talk by me (Craig Rusbult, PhD) at
the annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation, in July 2016.
Below is my Detailed Outline for the talk, and (with links added) the Abstract.
A Detailed Outline — with major revisions after the meeting — is available in PDF (recommended) and PowerPoint. |
Abstract: Education for Critical Thinking - Schrodinger's Cat in a Multiverse? |
a context — I wrote the following section-with-links in March 2023, when I was planning to give a related talk for ASA 2023, with an iou promising a revision. But I decided to not attend, so it remains a “rough draft” of what it would have become with revisions.
Evaluative Thinking: School Activities to help student improve their Productive Thinking (creative-and-critical, using ideas); creative thinking = evaluative thinking with positives & negatives; Evaluation is used for Argumentation; Accurate Understanding and Respectful Attitudes - Evaluations in Science and Life. {note: links to left-and-right pages will open in a new window, so you can explore the links freely and then return to this page, which remains open in its original window} {and more}
Quantum Physics: Schrodinger's Cat, Observation & Consciousness, Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) and summaries of why I think MWI is theologically unsatisfactory and scientifically not-needed (and not-useful for me). {and more}
Multiverse Theology: Overviews of Multiverse Principles (to "beat the odds" for intelligent design before history or during history) and Multiverse Theology (why most multiverses, but not an MWI-multiverse, would be theologically satisfactory); and there is another version of Principles and a longer version of Theology. {and more}
Young-Earth Creation: I've written an overview-faq with 4 sections (3A-3D) about young-earth theology & science, plus long “open letters” to young-earth creationists, about their theology & science. For these questions, there are very strong interactions between logical evaluations and psychology/sociology influences, and (for young-earth scientists) probably some strong cognitive dissonance.