[december12]

To say that the theory of evolution has lacunae is one thing, but that doesn't justify ID. Many other theories are conceivable. I don't mind teaching the uncertainties within the theory of evolution, but I do object to teaching ID in science classes.

[phelanw]

Why? Teach it and present the best possible refutations of it. That's real education. Education is always a dialogue between opposing viewpoints. Indoctrination is presenting the "truth."

[TheCrusader]

"I don't mind teaching the uncertainties within the theory of evolution,"

'Uncertainties'?? How about fabrications like 'Piltdown Man', do you teach that little bit of Darwinism treachery in class? Or do you mean the 'uncertainties' such as the fact that Darwin himself wrote that unless and until the missing linking fossils and transitional forms are uncovered his theory is dead in the water? I hope you teach this, it's all part of the story of 'evolution'.

If you give it a fair chance in your scientific mind which is supposed to be open to all possibilities, you just might agree that the greatest scientific event in all eternity was God's CREATION of the universe from nothing. Certainly a worthy scientific discussion for the classroom, eh?

[AmericaUnited]

To say that the theory of evolution has lacunae is one thing, but that doesn't justify ID. Many other theories are conceivable

Of course. Extreterestial life experiments...

[i.l.e.]

Somebody needs to open a book and go back to Comparative Vertabrate Anatomy and learn something. Darwin wasn't making a large claim - only that as things change in the environment - animals adapt in morphology. This isn't hard to understand.

And it doesn't refute the fact than humans were created by external intervention(s).

As long as the facts are kept away from the argument then hot air will rise.

[Creationist]

To say that the theory of evolution has lacunae is one thing, but that doesn't justify ID. Many other theories are conceivable. I don't mind teaching the uncertainties within the theory of evolution, but I do object to teaching ID in science classes.

Why not remove all of the uncertainties of the evolutionary theory. It is not needed in any form to study biology, chemistry, physics, philosophy. Most of the theory of evolution is based upon lies proved wrong many years ago and yet is still in the text books.

I am a believer in the creation of the Bible it is as much of a theory to you as evolution is to me. So lets not teach either or lets teach both.

It takes faith to believe those uncertainties, that in my belief makes it a religion an should not be funded by tax dollars. Seperation of church and state.