You’ve heard it folks… this morning, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled that the Dover Area School Board has no right to include Intelligent Design in it’s biology curriculum.
I can’t tell you have relieved I am to know that there are judges and lawmakers that understand what kind of non-sense that some people of faith are trying to force into public school systems.
It’s easy to state my opinion on Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design is wrong and does not deserve to be taught along side of evolution in any science class. Essentially, Intelligent Design is a creationism story that replaces god with an “unidentified intelligent being”, a sad attempt at subtly forcing creationism into situations which the Bible does not have reach.
I won’t go into much detail in this post.. as the topic of evolution vs creationism deserves an entire series of posts (which may or may not show up on this blog)… but rest assured that if you ever want to discuss where Man came from, feel free to shoot me an email
Look like the wedge plan failed IDers... w00t! I'm suprised the people who believe in ID follow behind guys like Behe. Have you ever heard the guy talk? He's intelligent... but not when it comes to proving his points.
If you want your kids to learn about creationism/intelligent design... pull them out of public schools and put them into a private faith based school. **Simple.**
Let's play out a scenerio here:
Intelligent Design gets to be taught in class... what *next*?
Astrology in Astronomy class?
Alchemy in Chemistry class?
Tarot Card reading lessons in Psychology?
I appreciate that you are at least trying to deal with the question by asking if it is correct or not, rather than what most people end up doing, which is reducing it to political battles. Let's not forget what education is actually about.
_Essentially, Intelligent Design is a creationism story that replaces god with an "unidentified intelligent being", a sad attempt at subtly forcing creationism into situations which the Bible does not have reach._
However, you've fallen for a straw man. Admittedly it is a pretty good straw man (as they go), but this characterization of ID is not accurate. I suggest you try to take a look at it from an unbiased perspective (which I'll admit is monstrously difficult) like Scott Adams is doing.
Though I can heartily agree with you on one thing: getting the government out of education would be a huge leap forward for everyone.
I'm curious, what is your perception/characterization of Intelligent Design? I do think you're correct in assuming that I have taken a biased approach to finding the real gist behind ID, but I also feel as if it's not as complicated as people think...
(ps sorry if my comments don't save your information, i'm trying to figure out why that's happening)