intelligent decision, unintelligent design

[maelorin]

Intelligent Decision

What the judge said about intelligent design in schools.

in short: intelligent design isn't science, it's religious propaganda that has no place in science classes.

Unintelligent Design

A monstrous discovery suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth.

i like viruses, intellectually at least. even the messy ones are architecturally and biologically fascinating.

Comments

[obsoletechild.livejournal.com]

Darwin exhibition (http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/)

They were talking about this exhibit on national public radio the other day. It has a small section devoted to 'competing theories', including intelligent design.

has no place in science classes

[rowlirowl.livejournal.com]

This is where I think people haven’t really understood. It already is in science classes in high schools. Particular denominations would teach this idea to their congregation, who would in turn, pass it onto their kids. The kids have been taught these ideas by their parents.

So the question isn’t whether or not ID should be in Science classes, but how to handle it. I think it needs to be handled with sensitivity and respect. Kids generally believe that what they are told by their parents are correct, and being insensitive about these beliefs will turn the kids away from science at the least, and perhaps education as a whole.