Posted on 09/26/2005 1:53:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A Pennsylvania school district's use of "intelligent design" in its high school biology curriculum goes on trial in federal court today in the nation's first legal challenge to the idea, which contends that evolutionary theory alone does not explain how life on Earth took shape.
The lawsuit, brought by 11 parents in the Dover Area School District, attacks as unconstitutional the year-old policy of telling ninth-grade biology students that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution "is not a fact. Gaps in the Theory exist for which there is no evidence." School officials also recommend a book on intelligent design, or ID.
The plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, argue that the policy -- which does not require students to study intelligent design -- serves religious, not secular ends, violating the First Amendment.
ID proponents say scientists can look at life forms and identify the work of a controlling "intelligence," although ID advocates are not specific about the nature of that force. While they do not reject all evolutionary theory, ID proponents argue that it incorrectly insists life took shape purely through a mindless process.
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Humans are not apes. That makes absolutely no sense just by simple observation. And if you believe otherwise, you are delusional.
I should clarify once more that nothing is ever proved in science.
Evidence that simply indicates certainly can be interpreted in different ways.
Sorry. Not playing.
Gonna take your ball and go home?
Humans are mammals - that is obvious. It is equally obvious we are not apes. Apes are apes and humans are humans - surely you see the distinction. I just can't imagine believing an ape is equal to a human. Why aren't mice and pigs equal to humans? Our DNA is very, very close. Why choose apes to descend from?
I'll play. Why don't you give me the characteristics of an ape, and how, specifically, humans do not fit them?
Btw what do you mean by "Why aren't mice and pigs equal to humans"? What do you mean by "equal"?
So you admit to incorrect interpretation, except when it comes to evolution, right?
That should be "you're" - a contraction. Maybe you should have studied English as hard as you studied evolution.
Oh please. When you demonstrate where the evidence has been incorrectly interpreted, I'll listen.
Relatives - cousins, descendents. I am descended from humans. We and they looked like humans, thought like humans, and lived like humans. Apes do not look like us, think like us, or live like us. Apes are apes. Humans are humans.
And when you prove humans descended from apes, I'll listen.
We have to stop the Secular Gravitists from suppressing IF! Physics students should be exposed to all viewpoints!
Teach the controversy!
Telling me "apes are apes" is not telling me what an ape is.
Now what would Jesus say about all of your insults?
And for one last time, I'm not playing. Have fun.
Apes are members of the superfamily Hominoidea, which includes the family Hominidae (Hominids). Humans are hominids - therefore by definition, humans are apes, whether you like it or not.
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