Intelligent design ...

Scott Leffler · Guru

Intelligent design ...

Paper Tigress · Veteran Member

I think it's the most compromising thing Bush has ever said. I wouldn't mind an equal exposure of ideas. However, where would you teach about intelligent design? The Big Bang theory should still be taught in the science class, but would you put creationism in the same room? Will you be including the dozens of other cultural P.O.V.'s on how we got here in addition to Christianity? My ancestors believed the Big Turtle theory, which is just as provable as Jehovah snapping his fingers and creating the Garden of Eden.

Scott Leffler · Guru

PT,

I think you have to teach it in that same science class.

"Modern scientists believe that we got here by .... bang, Darwin, etc."

"But at one time we used to teach ... God, Adam & Eve, etc. ... and in fact, there are many who still believe that to be true."

Maybe you take a day to review each theory or whatever.

Frankly, I've always felt that both sound completely implausable. But that's just me.

Mindcrime · Guru

I'd have to disagree with you Scott.

Science is based on solid evidence and experimentation. Religion is based on stories & heresay (not to be confused with heresy, which many feel I'm committing now). I certainly believe that all religions should be presented, perhaps in a world studies class. They discuss different cultures, different governments, why not different religions?

There is a distinct difference between searching for TRUTH, and searching for FACT. Science is concerned with facts alone. Creationism doesn't belong in a laboratory any more than dinosaur bones belong in church.

Scott Leffler · Guru

By Brian Alexander

02:00 AM Aug. 30, 2005 PT

Some time ago, I conducted an interview with Florida Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Republican and staunch member of the religious right. At the time, Stearns was proposing a law to jail any scientist who attempted to make a human embryo through cloning. He opposed cloning and embryonic stem-cell research, he said, because clones would not have "tentacles" like you and me and we'd wind up with "categories of people who didn't have these tentacles, so there might be superior and inferior people. If you met them and knew they were cloned, how would you deal with them?"

OK, so maybe you can't blame Stearns for concocting an Ed Wood plot point. He's no scientist, and besides, he provides comic relief. But how funny is it that President George W. Bush recently endorsed the teaching of "intelligent design" as an alternative to the theory of evolution?

Read the rest at Wired.com

-- Edited by Scott Leffler at 22:21, 2005-08-31

Mindcrime · Guru

Last night on one of the CNN's, they promo'd a special report called The Evolution of a Disaster, highlighting how the government played a role. In that case, shouldn't they be calling it the Intelligent Design of a Disaster?