[Jay777]

Ping!

[PeterFinn]

Psychotically enraged Darwinist-atheist-antiChristian response to follow.

[Strategerist]

The statement continued, “Intelligent Design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin’s view.”

There's a sign the author of the statement is an utter and complete moron.

If Evolution was an explanation of the origin of life, Darwin wouldn't have entitled his book "The Origin of Species"; he would have called it "The Origin of Life."

[CriticalJ]

Good news!

On a side note, I was listening to a radio talk show here in NC. They were interviewing a consultant for the NC Dept of Education. The hosts were asking him if this could happen in NC. He said that the theory of design could be taught in NC if it were taught in the appropriate class (he didn't name what an appropriate class would be), but that it couldn't be taught in science since it wasn't science. The host gave him a pass on the statement unfortunately.

[Waco]

1st school in the nation?? Bulsh*t! For 200+ years schools routinely respected God and Country!

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . the ability to store, edit, and transmit and use information to regulate biological systems . . .

Hard to imagine these abilities completely apart from intelligence or design. With the Theory of Evolution, however, the imagination can run wild.

[NYer]

The small town of Dover, Pennsylvania today became the first school district in the nation to officially inform students of the theory of Intelligent Design, as an alternative to Darwin’s theory of Evolution.

Intelligent Design = God! Finally, they're beginning to see the Light.

Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[gdani]

Since the late 1950s advances in biochemistry and microbiology, information that Darwin did not have in the 1850s, have revealed that the machine like complexity of living cells - the fundamental unit of life- possessing the ability to store, edit, and transmit and use information to regulate biological systems....

How is that incompatible with evolution?

[atlaw]

From the article: Teachers reported that there were no problems in class after the statements were read and the entire process was uneventful.

Not particularly surprising. After all, the entirety of ID as a discipline was exhausted after the reading of the four paragraphs, so there wasn't much to get excited about.

(personally, I think ID is a conspiracy amongst school administrators who would really rather play golf than spend time organizing an actual science curriculum)

[1LongTimeLurker]

Dover Area School District were read a four-paragraph statement Tuesday morning explaining that Darwin’s theory is not a fact and continues to be tested.

I'm curious to know, is there any school district in the country that reads its students statements that Einstein's theories are not facts are continued to be tested? For example, NASA just tested an Einstein theory on whether time is warped by an object.

What about black hole theories, which were just revised recently.

Are there any scientific theories which aren't continually tested?

[HankReardon]

Evolution is the fairy tale. Sorry, humans have always been humans, trees have always been trees .....

[Right Wing Professor]

Darwin's theory says nothing about the origin of life. Are they uneducated, or mendacious?

[tutstar]

ping

[finnigan2]

The evolutionary theory bandwagon has recently lost a wheel and I wish I knew more of the background to the story as to what triggered the event. Everything seemed to be going fine; scientists were busy announcing the latest proof that Darwin was right and suddenly some seem to be hedging their bets with this intelligent design business and are now shuffling nervously toward the exits.
The only guess that I can make is that perhaps the more perceptive among them have learned through DNA studies and gene research that evolution, as preached by Darwin, cannot stand much longer against recent evidence. Intelligent design is therefore a fallback position which doesn't completely let go of Darwin but doesn't go so far as to admit that Creationists might have been right all along.

[Purple GOPer]

There is a great essay on what to tell High School students at http://paulgraham.com/hs.html.

Sorry I am new here and I am not sure how to post new subjects or I would make it a separate topic.

[Purple GOPer]

I have read some very interesting arguments both for and against evolution. If any high school has the time to go into either a history of science or current science questions I am sure that some of this information would be included.

To get back to this particular article, can any of the ID people on this list tell me what the scientific benefit of teaching ID in high school would be other than saying evolution is either wrong or incomplete.