I’m writing in hopes of getting back into the roots of
this thread. To me, Intelligent design is just plain
unconstitutional. Intelligent design may not be
promoting any one religion (which is an idea advocates
for the intelligent design theory proclaim), but it is
still promoting the idea of a higher power, which is
clearly in the realm of religion, and therefore is
promoting religion, it doesn’t matter if it’s
promoting any one of them over another. Anytime the
concept of “God” is introduced into any field of
scientific study, promotion of religion is present and
that is clearly not allowed b/c the separation of
church and state. Evolution is a purely scientific
theory and truly the best we have to date, so
naturally it should be taught in science classes. Of
course there are holes, but that’s only because we are
still learning (remember its just a theory! not a
fact!). Both the theory and its holes should be
taught together (of course which holes are real holes
is an entirely different matter altogether), but I’m
not really very comfortable with anyone but a doctor
in biology teaching about evolution. People in the
non-scientific community tend to have an incorrect
view of what evolution really is. One of the most
amusing comments I tend to here in my bible-belt town
is “Any idea that says we came from monkeys is just
plain ignorant.”
Of course, I do not wish to shield anyone from any
religious view. Actually, I wish for everyone to
experience every single religious view. But science
classes are not the place. Maybe in an English class
where we learn about other myths, like those of the
antiquity, because many people believe these days
believe their ideas of higher powers and stories of
creation to be truth, but how is that any different
from the ancient Greeks who believed their myths to be
truth also.
Science has no place for gods, if it did, it wouldn’t
be science.
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