Posted on 09/20/2006 12:34:51 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos says Michigan's science curriculum should include a discussion about intelligent design.
He says including intelligent design along with evolution would help students discern the facts among different theories.
"I would like to see the ideas of intelligent design — that many scientists are now suggesting is a very viable alternative theory — that that theory and others that would be considered credible would expose our students to more ideas, not less," DeVos told The Associated Press this week during an interview on education.
Intelligent design's proponents hold that living organisms are so complex they must have been created by a higher force rather than evolving from more primitive forms. Some want science teachers to teach that Darwin's theory of evolution is not a fact and has gaps.
However, a federal judge in December barred the school system in Dover, Pa., from teaching intelligent design alongside evolution in high school biology classes. The judge said that intelligent design is religion masquerading as science, and that teaching it alongside evolution violates the separation of church and state. [Kitzmiller et al. v Dover Area School District et al.]
Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm has said that Michigan schools need to teach the established theory of evolution in science classes and not include intelligent design, but can explore intelligent design in a current events or a comparative religions class.
The State Board of Education last week postponed adopting new science curriculum guidelines until state lawmakers get more time to weigh in on what the state's public schools science curriculum should be and how it should approach the teaching of evolution.
Beagle, Considering your opinion of Darwin, your screenname is ironic.
However, ID is not a "field" so there is no overlap.
With a resounding flush!
"Not a big fan of science I see."
Love science, not a big fan of BS.
Teach that God has ear hair. After all, I am made in his image.
Teach that the world is 6,000 years old, and that all that carbon dating stuff is a plot by the devil.
Teach that fossils are planted there by god, as a test of faith.
What a bunch of nutjobs.
ID is part of a field of study. It's strength (or not) lies in the operative inference. Works the same for scientific thinking on evolution.
"Love science, not a big fan of BS."
How can you say you love something when you don't even know what it is?
OK, so tell us where the theory of evolution got it wrong, and pray include an alternate theory that is testable and falsifiable.
All he proposing is a discussion about ID theory.
As usual the atheists, liberal kooks are up in arms over this, overreacting as usual.
I think the geometric figure you're looking for is a pyramid :)
ID is a part of a sham. I am sorry... there may be different ways to interpret the fossil records, but ID isn't one of them.
Good. then you will join us in support of hard science, like physics. You will jump on Young Earthers. You will jump on idiots who say you can't start a bacterial colony with a single organism. You will jump on liars who claim repeatedly that evolution hasn't been observed under replicable laboratory conditions. You will jump on liars who say macro-evolution hasn't been observed, then eat wheat and corn -- crops that have mutated into existence in historical times.
"Teach that fossils are planted there by god, as a test of faith. "
And that starlight you see hasn't been traveling for millions of years. God is just playing a huge joke on us about the age of the universe.
So what happens when the left decides that our children have to be taught about Islam and Buddhism and all the rest of it? Would you be okay with that, too?
"OK, so tell us where the theory of evolution got it wrong, and pray include an alternate theory that is testable and falsifiable."
Strawman, prove evolution, show something that evolved into something else.
>>As usual the atheists, liberal kooks are up in arms over this, overreacting as usual.<<
And FReepers agreeing with Jenny Grandholm. Never thought I'd see the day!
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