The argument is rather simple. Ask him who invented evolution? Who invented the physical laws of the universe?
I wouldn't teach intelligent design, but I would raise the question that these systems seem awfully complex to have developed in a total vacuum. Evolution is a fine system for auto correction that an intelligent designer might include in his package of rules.
Diva's Husband
good pt. concur.
Ask him who invented evolution? Who invented the physical laws of the universe?
The only truthful answer is that no one knows. Any other answer is not based on faith. That is, these are religious/philosophical questions, not scientific questions. Any attempted answers taught in school should be in religion or philosophy classes, not in a science class.
I hope you are of the "God used evolution" mindset . Otherwise, this is the exact reason ID (aka creationism) should never be allowed to be taught in schools. The religious fundamentalists in this country was to completely destroy science education and replace it with a simple "God did it." Evolution, like quantum mechanics and relativity are unifying theories that are the bedrock of current scientific understanding. Science does not deal with issues of the supernatural or spiritual. If it did, then God could be put in a test tube and experimented upon. If this trend continues, the U.S. will have the technical sophisitcation of a thrid world nation. Already, half the science and education graduate students are foreign. If this is taught in schools, then it will become 90 to 100% because American high school graduates would fail miserably as they try to inject the supernatural into their experiments and would fail miserably if they desired to pursue an advanced degree.