Q&A: Why do people want to teach intelligent design in schools?
Posted by James on June 1, 2012 · 3 Comments
Question by Chris K: Why do people want to teach intelligent design in schools?
so, I just watched most of Ben Stein’s documentary: “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”. Basically, the only clips of people who were for the theory of evolution were something like this:”intelligent design is stupid! Why would you ever believe something as stupid as that?” Ok, intelligent design is not a scientific theory. For one, it is not falsifiable. How could I possibly even try to prove you wrong? If you can show me an elephant fossil that dated to the Precambrian era, I might be a little bit more skeptical about the theory of evolution. Two, an intelligent designer is NOT the most parsimonious explanation for the origins of life on Earth. Yes, I know, cells are very complicated. However, I find it a much simpler explanation that life arose through something like the RNA world hypothesis that I do that the first cell was created by some kind of supreme being. I’m sorry, but I just gotta vent a little after seeing something like that. Don’t get it confused, intelligent design is not science, and it would be a real dis-service to kids to teach it in schools.
Best answer:
Answer by House iz bck in da hizzy!
Because kids can choose not to go to sunday school. What i am trying to say is ID supporters are trying to force it down our kids throats in school.
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Because, unfortunately, many Christian parents want schools to form their children’s moral imagination and are either too busy, lazy, or apathetic to see it as their own job to give their children a biblical worldview at home.
They very firmly believe, due to faith, that it is true. I think that’s the most common reason. Also, many fundamentalist Christians draw a false connection between evolution and Atheism, which they believe to be evil. They see evolution, consumerism, and atheism as a constellation of “beliefs” that they need to fight in order to promote their Christian world view. There is also the fact that many of these people firmly believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that America was founded as a Christian nation. Instead of a nation founded by Christians, as is the actual historical truth. To this end, they think that American public schools should force everyone to be Christian because that is part of being American. Nonsense of course, but it is still something that they believe and something that lends to their motivations. The good news is that the courts always rule against them, even the conservative Christian judges rule against creationism and ID in public schools.
Why did you only watch “most” of it? I watched all of Flock of Dodos.
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How do we test ID:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/03/a_response_to_questions_from_a.html
A Scientific History, and Philosophical Defense, of the Theory of Intelligent Design:
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=3241
The science behind ID:
http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/832
And for those who put so much faith in peer-review:
http://www.discovery.org/a/2640
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Oh, and the RNA World hypothesis is seriously flawed:
http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od171/rnaworld171.htm
http://creation.com/cairns-smith-detailed-criticisms-of-the-rna-world-hypothesis
http://www.grisda.org/origins/20045.htm