[TN4Liberty]

This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. --Sir Isaac Newton, The Principia

Staytrue said: "Teaching ID in schools would be nonesense (sic) and a bastardization of the word science."

Would Newton's quote be appropriate for a science class? Or would it be more appropriate to censor his work?

[RussP]

This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. --Sir Isaac Newton, The Principia

By the way, The Principia is widely regarded as perhaps the most important single scientific publication of all times.

Funny how science is being "bastardized" by the dogmatic denial of ID these days, eh?

[Virginia-American]

Would Newton's quote be appropriate for a science class?

Sure. Then, at least an advanced class, tehy could start studying the modern theories of solar system formation, how Bode's law is a consequence of physical forces, etc.

[staytrue]

Would Newton's quote be appropriate for a science class? Or would it be more appropriate to censor his work?

Newton's work is woefully incomplete. It is the first step toward understanding. Relativistic quantum mechanics is far beyond simple, incomplete, and occasionally dead wrong Newtonian mechanics. Problem is simple newtonian mechanics is beyond most students. Relativistic quantum theory is way beyond all but a very few.