If ever there was proof that man is
not the result of "intelligent design," it's got to be George W. Bush.
Bush wants Intelligent Design taught along beside evoution
Excuse me while I desolve into random cursing for a moment. Meet you on the flipside.
The concept of intelligent design has to be the greatest insult to the Creator that mankind has come up with in the past 100 years.
Intelligent design is the idea that life is too complex to have resulted from a random process. A higher power must have been beind it.
But let's get real. Good design is simple design -- any engineer will tell you that. If the complexity of life is what proves it was designed by a "higher power," then we're saying God is a really crap engineer.
Intelligence design is stupid on its face. Random processes produce complex results.
If an intelligence sat down to design man, why on Earth would he give him vestigial organs? What is the higher purpose behind giving humans a spine that compresses and causes searing pain before the rest of the body wears out?
Give me a break! If we were the result of intelligent design, we'd be a lot better engineered.
Science has to stand up to inquiry. There has to be evidence. Intelligent design is not science -- so why should it be taught as such?
Intelligent design is a philosophical principal. I pretty dumb one, if you ask me, but I don't get to tell people which philosophy to believe in. Philosphy, and its child, religion, has a place in the world. It's not in science class.
Will we start teaching auto mechanics in history class? I think people should be able to consider the correct technique for gapping a spark plug as an alternative to the idea that America was established through an armed insurrection.
Let's insist that algebra be taught during church services! You could just substitute one of those catchy Schoolhouse Rock songs for a hymn here and there.
So, the "Education President" wants to undermine the teaching of science. I guess that's not a big surprise. The wingers have always feared science. It's just one more brick in the "reality based" wall.