Thanks for your reply, I appreciate your comments.
"Now here I have nothing to apologize for. Please look at the next statements I make in the post. I state that since ID cannot be held up to scientific scrutiny, it continues to push itself onto the public schools to win proponents. Now... where am incorrect? That is exactly what it's proponents are doing, right? I then continue to talk about the dangers of using "invisible intelligences" to answer natural phenomena (or was that in another post...). So... where am I wrong?"
Here's the problem that *I* have....I'm a product of public schools, and they show an illustration (you know the one) of ape to ape/man to man with no other comparison or explanation of how man started to walk the earth. As a child, I think it's unfair not to be given (1) an alternative explanation; and (2) the offer that evolutuion of man from ape is a theory, and not fact (which is how it's represented).
I remember sitting through my science class watching my teacher explain how we evolved from apes, and even then (before I became a Christian), I just didn't buy it. And to this day, I still don't.
I would agree with you that Intelligent Design (God) shouldn't be taught in *any* form of government schools (whether its science or theology class), yes. Because, most likely, they'd screw it up and give kids a false representation pf God.
Scott
One of the problems with public schools, especially the science departments, is they are normally teaching things that are rather outdated. I still remember seeing pictures of the old 1910 model of an atom. That is misleading and you are correct.
I remember sitting through my science class watching my teacher explain how we evolved from apes, and even then (before I became a Christian), I just didn't buy it. And to this day, I still don't.
Perhaps the reason why we disagree is because most of what I learned about evolution (and science in general) was not what I learned in public school but on my own and in college. It isn't that I did not "buy it" but I found the public school explanation to be incomplete. So, instead of throwing the whole idea out the window I looked for answers on my own (we had a bunch of crazy science encyclopedias hanging around my house). I also never really focused much on the ape to human part at all. I focused more on plant evolution (hey I grew up on a farm it was what I knew). For me it wasn't that big a deal to grasp simply because plant hybridization was such a norm... that to take that and extend it over a long period of time made complete sense.
I would agree with you that Intelligent Design (God) shouldn't be taught in *any* form of government schools (whether its science or theology class), yes. Because, most likely, they'd screw it up and give kids a false representation pf God.
Now that is funny and so true.