The idea of teaching "intelligent design" in public schools is absurd.
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Das Pookinator
on February 14, 2007
Wasn't this country founded on a belief of separation between church and state? You want to teach it, thats fine, but do so in a private, non-government funded school. Keep god out of public classrooms.
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Except it's fine to teach it in a Religions/Culture class as: this is what some people believe. And it's fine to use it as an example in a logic class. However, it doesn't belong in a science class.
Oh, and it's also fine in a debate class.
Amen, sistah.
I agree with Rachel.
Teaching Intelligent Design is not the same as teaching religion. Intelligent Design is a valid argument, especially since Evolution does not explain where it all began and has yet to be proven. Also, the two could possibly coexist. What causes a creature to evolve?
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Scientific theories are never proven."Intelligent design" is not an argument. It's a tactic.
"Intelligent design" is an acceptable concept to teach in a religion or philosophy class, but the lack of data keeps it from being acceptable for a science class
Except that a) intelligent design explains nothing whatsoever and has never led to any scientific advances whatsoever and b) evolution is known to be true.
The two most certainly can co-exist. It is possible for both to be true. But one is a scientific theory, and the other is a belief that can only ever be held by faith with no evidence whatsoever. So, one is science, and the other is religion (pure faith). So, only one belongs in a science class. The other can be taught in a philosophy or religion class, and one can choose to hold it or not hold it based on faith. But science class is the place for evidence. And there is evidence for evolution. There is no evidence for intelligent design.
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The concept represented by the term of art "intelligent design" is simultaneously bad science and bad theology.If you understand something, then it's easier to kill it.
It belongs in a political science class.