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Intelligent Design to be taught in philosophy class
The Home of Uncommon Sense ^ | 12/22/2005 | Craig DeLuz

Posted on 12/22/2005 9:49:46 AM PST by Craig DeLuz



Even as a judge in Pennsylvania rules that it is illegal to even mention intelligent design in a public school classroom, Frazier Mountain High School officials have approved the teaching of intelligent design as a part of philosophy course that addresses the many theories surrounding the origin of life.

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TOPICS: Education; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: evolution; hseducation; intelligentdesign

1 posted on 12/22/2005 9:49:48 AM PST by Craig DeLuz
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To: Craig DeLuz

?Intelligent Design to be taught in philosophy class,...
and Abnormal Pyschology class,.... and U.N. Sociology class....in the dark backroom closet....?


2 posted on 12/22/2005 10:10:22 AM PST by maestro
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To: Craig DeLuz

[..."I do not know how the people in this community
are going to react when they know (it's offered)."...]

I know this community and I believe they will appreciate
the diversity. Good people come from Frazier Mountain,
including my Father, who just turned 90 years old!

If Greek Mythology explains origin, why not teach ID?


3 posted on 12/22/2005 11:34:36 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Craig DeLuz

Taking an Intelligent Design course should provide as much weight when trying to get into a college as Evolution, regardless of where it is taught (Philosophy or Biology class).


5 posted on 12/22/2005 10:12:59 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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To: Grand Voyageur

"The "weight" of a course would be determined by whether you are going for an Arts or a Science degree. The amount of credits you would earn from a basic Philosophy class or a basic Biology class would be the same."

That's a good reason why they both need to be taught in a Biology class. They are both scientific theories, and the evo theory is getting weaker, while the ID theory is getting stronger.


7 posted on 12/23/2005 5:35:30 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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To: Grand Voyageur

While evo theories can be tested in a lab, after all this time,they still have not been proven.

Both ID and evo are theories, but the ID theory is reasonable.

You can't get something from nothing.

There is no evidence that shows that one species can change into another.


9 posted on 12/23/2005 6:33:56 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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To: Grand Voyageur

Since I'm not a scientist, I can't say anything about testing in a lab. However, in Topeka, Kansas they ARE teaching ID, and I'd love to see their criteria.

Here's a couple of excerpts that I found interesting:

In those days the cell was a black box, a mystery. But in the 20th century, scientists were able to open that black box and peek inside. There they found not a simple blob but a world of complex circuits, miniaturized motors, and digital code. We now know that even the simplest functional cell is almost unfathomably complex, containing at least 250 genes and their corresponding proteins.

Explains New Zealand geneticist Michael Denton, each cell “is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms.”

The odds of a primordial soup randomly burping up even one protein strand of moderate length are dramatically less than 1 chance in 10150.

It’s hard to grasp how long these odds are—one followed by 150 zeros. We know that a lot of strange things can happen in a place as big and old as our universe, but as mathematician and philosopher William Dembski explains in the Cambridge University Press book The Design Inference, the universe isn’t remotely big enough, old enough, or fast enough to generate that much complexity.

Nor have attempts to explain this complexity as the natural outworking of the laws of nature proven successful. The best explanation? Intelligent Design.

excerpt from http://www.discovery.org/scripts/vi...nd=view&id=2350


Biochemistry textbooks and journal articles describe the workings of some of the many living molecular machines within our cells, but they offer very little information about how these systems supposedly evolved by natural selection. Many scientists frankly admit their bewilderment about how they may have originated, but refuse to entertain the obvious hypothesis: that perhaps molecular machines appear to look designed because they really are designed.


http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html


11 posted on 12/23/2005 8:03:54 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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To: Grand Voyageur

fyi, this from Craig's blog:

According to a tentative syllabus, the class, titled "Philosophy of Design," will cover the concepts of philosophy, intelligent design, Darwinism/evolution, the laws of thermodynamics and fossil records and dating methods.

http://craigdeluz.blogspot.com/2005/12/intelligent-design-to-be-taught-in.html


12 posted on 12/23/2005 8:11:13 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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