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Intelligent design on trial
Washington Times ^ | 9/28/05

Posted on 09/28/2005 3:28:36 AM PDT by Crackingham

It's unfortunate that intelligent design is standing trial in Pennsylvania. Scientific theories require decades, sometimes centuries, to develop, to withstand scrutiny before they are accepted as legitimate. Trying to force acceptance -- or denial -- quickly is an end-run around the scientific method and the spirit of free inquiry. Whatever the lower courts decide about whether intelligent design can be mentioned in public schools, the controversy will probably reach the Supreme Court, which will be asked to determine what is scientific and what is not.

Clearly, the Dover Area School District, by forcing the issue with its requirement that teachers read a four-paragraph "statement" identifying intelligent design as an alternative theory to Darwinian evolution, has done neither science nor students any favors. Intelligent design is a proposition in a state of infancy, and has not earned a place in public school curriculums. A wide range of alternative propositions are never taught precisely because there is no structure to challenge prevailing opinion. That doesn't mean the alternatives are wrong; but students should learn first the best explanation, given what is known. Despite its many flaws, Darwinian evolution remains the standard.

It's no surprise that 11 Dover parents, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is ever eager to advance atheism as secular theology, sued the school district on the grounds that intelligent design is "a 21st century version of creationism." In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled that teaching creationism in public schools violates the Constitution's establishment clause, separating church and state. Both critics and proponents with no advanced scientific degree, who have so eagerly judged the supernatural premises of intelligent design, only demonstrate their political or religious biases.

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To: CodeToad

When did I say religious thoughts were flawed?
I said arguments based on religion were flawed.
Your reading comprehension is a bit lacking.

MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU READ BEFORE COMMENTING.

I already prooved religious arguments to be flawed.
No one knows if their beliefs are any more right then anyone else's. If everyone's equally right then whose' beliefs should we follow?
This comes down to personnal opinion in the end.

People believing the earth flat did not make it flat so this personnal opinion argument is flawed. If this personnal opinion argument is wrong then so can any other arguments that are based on personnal opinion, like religious beliefs, How do you discern which are true and which are wrong based on just opinions? You can't so the argument is flawed.

The only way that religion can become a valid argument is if you can proove the existence of what you believe in since they would then be facts instead of opinions.

Different fossils that are in between apes and human show steps between monkey and human. Which clearly suggest that we did not appear as we are. If we did then we would have found human fossil from the start.

Unless you provide an explanation and show how it is better then evolution to explain the data we have your just talking out of your behind.

I'm not interested in discussing with individuals who are certain they know the truth even though they have zero evidence to back up their claims.


61 posted on 02/11/2006 5:38:21 PM PST by Malygris
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To: Malygris

Are you always such an ass?


62 posted on 02/11/2006 8:33:55 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

That's no argument. Insults from strangers don't bother me.
The bible says Judge not lest ye be judged. WISE WORDS.


And you still did not counter any of my arguments.
Logic is not nice, it's cold and brutal. GET USED TO IT.
That applies both ways, it's a double edged sword.

OUT.


63 posted on 02/12/2006 5:42:26 AM PST by Malygris
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