''A national debate has hit the roof over how evolution should be taught in the state's public schools.'' from:
Q & A: What is Intelligent Design?.
Some people ask these questions about the teaching of Intelligent Design: ''WHY is it unacceptable to allow the debate? Why is it unacceptable to teach the controversy? Why is it unacceptable to ask the question; are there better theories to explain the existence of life on this planet?''
My own question is why isn't the story of How The Elephant Got His Trunk being taught as an alternate ''theory'' in biology classes?
Taking a clue from the Intelligent Design folks, I ask this: ''WHY is it unacceptable to allow the debate? Why is it unacceptable to teach the controversy? Why is it unacceptable to ask the question; are there better theories to explain the existence of trunks on elephants?''
I propose stickers explaining how the possibility that elephants developed trunks by having their nose pulled on by tricky elephant can not be disproved. I would like my stickers to go just above the Intelligent Design sections added by the religious ''educators''.
Now, on to a more serious note:
Concerning Intelligent Design the main argument seems to be that some people just can't get their head around the idea that evolution and chance CAN create wonderful things. Sorry, the lack of comprehending something doesn't seem to me to be really a good argument against something. I think I comprehend evolution. I can't really comprehend entangled photons or how that could possibly be real, but I choose to believe they exist anyway despite how far fetched it may seem, because there is SCIENCE to back it up. Science is all about testing and retesting the truth of theories. Theories that can not be tested are NOT scientific theories. Non-scientific theories are just forms of superstition and should not be taught in public schools.
A lot of modern religion seems to be about denying and re-denying the realities of our world. Homosexuals have been around for at least several thousand years (we can only know for certain from the written record, I would imagine homosexuality goes back much earlier, since it exists in other animals as well). But SOME religious people (not all) deny the fact that humanity and families could have survived despite the existence of homosexuality for all these centuries. If you point out that the human race DID survive, they just re-deny it.
Well I don't think that some people should be allowed to let their denial of the way people and animals came into being, or their denial of the age of the Earth and the universe, or their denial of the fact that unmarried couples always have and always will copulate, or any of their other denials affect the public education of America's children...
Big Time Patriot