To: Alberta's Child
The problem is relating your point to the theories under discussion. You have stated that you point in no way makes the theory of intelligent design more plausible. So even on your own view, it's useless as part of a justification for teaching the theory or believing it true. You've suggested it's a problem for evolutionary theory, but you haven't even tried to show why. What is it about evolutionary theory that makes it more likely than not that many species would be able to do what humans can do?
To: ConsistentLibertarian
You misunderstand my original intent -- I would be perfectly content to keep the whole study of human origins out of schools altogether. Aren't you suspicious when a school system that can't even teach kids to read at a third-grade level insists on teaching something as extraneous as the origin of human species?
My guess is that human evolution will no longer be taught in schools when rational people start to point out that Darwinism was one of the foundations of Nazism. A committed evolutionist can never explain why one human race cannot be subjagated to another.
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