Syracuse University See the related Evolution vs. Creationism page for PHY106. Not Just as a Tool for Science. Our brains and nervous systems constitute a belief-generating machine, a system that evolved to assure not truth, logic, and reason, but survival. Gullibility, a childhood survival skill, is harmful for adults.
Science requires an almost complete openness to all ideas.
On the other hand, it requires the most rigorous and uncompromising skepticism. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1994. A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith Healing and Other Unconventional Treatments by Kurt Butler, edited by Stephen Barrett, Prometheus, 1992. A Field Guide Commentary, June 1999, pp. Discover 10, January 1989, pp.