I am an evolution supporter -- there's far more evidence for it than for ID -- but I find it strange that Olson or Harvard didn't include a prominent ID supporter in the discussion panel.
I agree that scientists make the case poorly. Here's why I think they do: most of them are products of well-to-do families and excellent schools, and they simply have no idea how little science education the average American has. And most science departments have janitors who are smarter than many high school science teachers, and just about all grade school science teachers.
It's grim to look at what's in a middle school science textbook these days. There's a lot of political cant, and very, very little science.
I recently answered a high-schooler's question, on where did all the breeds of dogs come from. He was absolutely astonished to know that they were the product of human intervention in the form of selective breeding of what were once wild wolves, and there hadn't been differentiated Afghan Hounds and Pekinese since time immemorial (or since Creation, take your pick).
It's people with this general level of education that start withholding vaccination from their kids, for instance, or panic over power lines, or try to get nuclear power plants closed, or go on jihad against flouridation. (I'm not saying ID proponents are all ignorant like this, I'm saying the median of our nation is).
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And most science departments have janitors who are smarter than many high school science teachers, and just about all grade school science teachers.
Fun statements and the last statement is true around here BECAUSE THERE AREN'T any grade school science teachers here. Boy, old Delbert could have been a professor. Well I'll be!!
I recently answered a high-schooler's question, on where did all the breeds of dogs come from.
From the horny chihuahua down the block.
I'm skeptical of ID, but I really don't like how evolution is being defended in the courts and legislatures. It's becoming a State Non-Church. It may as well be Henry VIII writing the laws of physics.