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The State Board of Education gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a 10th-grade biology lesson that scientists say could put "intelligent design" in Ohio classrooms.
Setting aside an impassioned plea from the National Academy of Sciences, the board voted 13-4 to declare its intent to adopt the "Critical Analysis of Evolution" lesson next month.
The academy warned that doing so would give a green light to teaching intelligent design, the idea that life is so complex that a higher being must have created it.
Originally posted by surfup
Great what's next?
Come on. We are living in the 22nd century, not in in B.C, when we thought Zeus controlled lightining.
[Edited on 2/13/2004 by surfup]
Originally posted by dunkleskates
Originally posted by surfup
Great what's next?
Come on. We are living in the 22nd century, not in in B.C, when we thought Zeus controlled lightining.
ummm.... someone please correct me if im wrong, but last i checked, it was the 21st century
Originally posted by amantine
Intelligent Design does not belong in any science class. It has no supporting evidence and is not falsifiable. Evolution has both these properties. Intelligent Design should be taught in the religion classes or maybe philosophy.
I am not quoting any religions beleifs when I stated that we had to have been created by intelligent design I am only posting what is logical.
It is illogical to think that something as complex as the human being could have created itself from raw materials on the earth. It is way more sci-fi to think that we were all created in a sludge pit of amino acids than to think of travelling at light speed. The dynamics that would need to be in place to have that interaction take place are staggering. Add to that the fact that after this first form of life created itself it would have to be able to reproduce itself or it would die out.
So think about what you are saying
1. Somehow everything just came together and chemicals that are not supposed to interact, interacted and created life.
2. This one life has created every form of life on earth that you now see. (If this is so then why and how did it change into different things) Why did certain creatures evolve just to be the food of other creatures. True evolution would mean everything would evolve to be the best not less than the best.
3. This first life somehow found a way to reproduce itself after it created itself.
A little far-fetched don't you think?
Originally posted by amantine
We should keep the discussion about intelligent design in that thread. I don't have a problem with critical analysis of evolution. I do have a problem with making it seem as if a totally unproven and flawed theory like intelligent design is a good alternative to evolution. Intelligent design is in essence the same as creationism; an intelligent creator made the universe and made life (you said this yourself in the other thread).
Originally posted by BlackJackal
Do you have a problem with presenting all alternatives to students from Creationism to Evolution? Or would you rather stop at Criticism of Evolution?
Not believing in the basics of biology is not an option. It's similar to saying, "I don't believe in gravity". Evolution is proven. It's happening now. It's not an option in education to believe it or not.
Originally posted by jezebel I think it's great!! I have always believed that students should be presented with all sides of the theory of evolution, good and bad, and allowed to decide for themselves what to believe.
Originally posted by BlackJackal
All I am saying is that all theories need to be taught to give students all the options. We do not need to neuter education to just teaching what we think is right now. If we only teach evolution and someone comes up with proof that it is wrong they will be treated the same way Galileo was when he said the Earth was not the center of the Solar System.