[MineralMan]

""He did not make any statement about how the first living creatures appeared'

Huh?

Then you need to tell that to a few hundred science teachers."

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Not a bad idea, actually. The Theory of Evolution does not address the original origins of life at all. Darwin did not address it in any of his published writings.

There are some theories about the origin of life, including the Intelligent Design one, but they have nothing particularly to do with evolution, which discusses speciation.

[Strategerist]

I actually don't think discussing the origin of life at all has any place in public schools. It's more of a college-level topic due to the complexity and speculative nature of it.

Because so many people attack evolution thinking it's abiogenesis, it's awfully hard to tell how many of those people really ARE genuinely opposed to evolution and are actual creationists (things like whales evolved from land mammals, etc. etc.)

[Raquel]

Darwin's theory of evolution ultimately concludes that modern day humans are a classification of beings that have evolved (via survival of the fittest) after millions of years, right? Therefore in the context of this discussion, the origin of human life (and humans themselves) is the subject that Darwin theorizes upon. The theory of Intelligent Design similarly theorizes upon the origin of human life. Why then would you not want to discuss the two theories conjunctively, after all the subject is the same?

[Raquel]

Darwin's theory of evolution ultimately concludes that modern day humans are a classification of beings that have evolved (via survival of the fittest) after millions of years, right? Therefore in the context of this discussion, the origin of human life (and humans themselves) is the subject that Darwin theorizes upon. The theory of Intelligent Design similarly theorizes upon the origin of human life. Why then would you not want to discuss the two theories conjunctively, after all the subject is the same?

[shubi]

ID is not a scientific theory. ID is mere speculation based on misinterpretation of the Bible.