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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Really? You mean it's anything you want to believe? Guess we can slash the research budgets across the board, then!
If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes
Big sigh. I keep hoping though.
You could always argue in your spare time.
Nah, I'm out - hopefully to find better things to do!
I'll read an elementary science book when you read the Bible, deal?
Not for lack of evidence or trying, but because of your premeditated refusal to accept it. It would speak more for your character if you would be honest about this, and be proud enough in your beliefs to proclaim that no amount of proof will sway you, than to continue to ask for and pretend to consider the evidence when you know in your heart that you will never accept it.
Then why get on these threads in the first place?
welcome to the "Festival of Angry Trolls"
That's what trolls do!
Just how does the notion of evolution make scientific investigation more valid?
Because die-hard evolutionists are soooo convinced of the fact of evolution that anyone who dares to disagree with them is simply and completely out of touch with reality. Therefore they are incapable of making intelligent, rational decisions, so ANY conclusions they arrive at are immediately suspect and promptly dismissed off hand. The minute you acknowledge a doubt about evolution, you lose all credibility.
No. When you post stuff that is full of elementary errors, you loose all credibility.
I will not suffer fools any longer. this is my last post.
1. No, I will not answer your question because it is not a question.
2. If you believe this is unconstitional then that means you must consider the teacher in question to be congress, and the mentioning of a book about ID to be the establishment of a religion. Therefore--you're an idiot. I won't waste time on fools.
Well, I put way more stock in the Bible than a biology textbook. Either God created humans separately or He didn't a lied to us. I am not ready to call God a liar.
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