In a message dated 7/24/02 9:14:03 AM GMT Daylight Time, sketch2099@yahoo.com
writes:
> 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.
>
Hi there,
So creationism undermines the constitutional foundation of the USA?
I appreciate your argument and find such a move disturbing.
All the best,
Squonk.
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