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Intelligent Design - Freep this poll!

Thu Aug 04, 2005 at 05:14:07 PM PDT

This is a pretty blatant push-poll given their biases but even as written I can easily find myself voting "no". Of course my real answer would have been "Of course they should both be taught, but evolution should be taught in science class and intelligent design should be taught in philosophy class". The problem isn't exposing children to different ideas - it's misrepresenting what those ideas actually stand for.

Should students be exposed to different ideas, or should they be shielded from information about intelligent design? Give us your opinion.  

  • Yes, students should be exposed to the theory of intelligent design in public schools.
  • No, the theory of evolution is the only theory which should be taught in public schools.

http://www.afa.net/petitions/intelligentdesign/TakeSurvey.asp

Just for the fun of it, the poll is reproduced below.

Apologies if this has been diaried before but if it has the recent diary search function failed to reveal it to me.


Poll

Should students be exposed to different ideas, or should they be shielded from information about intelligent design? Give us your opinion.

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