Intelligent Design Not Fit for Classroom
Today a U.S. District Judge rendered the teachings of Intelligent Design unsuitable inappropriate for classrooms in America.
It’s odd for anyone to even consider teaching what clearly belongs to theology and religion in the realm of science. NPR (again) did a very well researched story on the subject matter. And of course, not that I have anything against people of religious faith, but I think politics, religion and everything else should just leave science alone. How sad is it that it took a court to decide what’s science and what’s not. And furthermore, IF the court ruled in favor of the creationists (or the pro-intelligent design camp), where will American scientific creativity and curiosity go? Isn’t exploring the unknown a crucial key to driving technological and scientific advances? By having Intelligent Design in the science curriculum, it’s basically just saying that some things are impossible to find out, and that’s attributed to the Intelligent Design.
Just leave science alone!
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December 22nd, 2005 at 3:30 pm
My brief reply is this…creationism, in some form of which I believe, is not yet clearly testable, and as such is not in the realm of the theories and hypotheses of science (which are testable and repeatable). Therefore, keep it in other classes, and let it enter into science discussions only when discussing current ideas such as quantum physics which posit other dimensions and what happened at the beginning of time as we know it. That is the closest “science” is getting to religion these days…
I still believe the exclusivity of science leaves much to be desired (the venn diagram issue that all science has proven is true, but all that it cannot prove isn´t necessarily untrue), and that our reliance on “truth” by science and science alone is quite lacking, but let´s not mistake science for what it is (a strict set of rules of hypothesis and experimentation that have led to an agreeable set of laws and theories), and let´s not complicate matters by introducing unscientific topics into science. Religion doesn´t need to be threatened by the facts of science.
December 22nd, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Well said.