{"id":622,"date":"2012-06-01T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:10:52","slug":"qa-why-do-people-want-to-teach-intelligent-design-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Why do people want to teach intelligent design in schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Chris K<\/i>: Why do people want to teach intelligent design in schools?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>so, I just watched most of Ben Stein&#8217;s documentary: &#8220;Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed&#8221;. Basically, the only clips of people who were for the theory of evolution were something like this:&#8221;intelligent design is stupid! Why would you ever believe something as stupid as that?&#8221; 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&#8217;m sorry, but I just gotta vent a little after seeing something like that. Don&#8217;t get it confused, intelligent design is not science, and it would be a real dis-service to kids to teach it in schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by House iz bck in da hizzy!<\/i><br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Chris K: Why do people want to teach intelligent design in schools? so, I just watched most of Ben Stein&#8217;s documentary: &#8220;Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed&#8221;. Basically, the only clips of people who were for the theory of evolution were something like this:&#8221;intelligent design is stupid! Why would you ever believe something as stupid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,33,97,1707,1694,307],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-design","tag-design","tag-intelligent","tag-people","tag-schools","tag-teach","tag-want"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}