The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design

Mime Narrator writes "An article over at Kuro5hin discusses the controvery over the Intelligent Design movement. The Dover, Pennsylvania school board recently adopted a policy requiring that high school science teachers teaching evolution tell their students that evolutionary theory, a theory that has been shown to explain the origins of life time and time again, is flawed, and that intelligent design is a valid alternative. The ACLU, along with the AUSCS (Americans United for the Separation of Church and State), and 11 parents, are suing the school board, accusing the board of violating the separation of church and state. "

Comments

Re:Another giant step backward...

[johnnyb]

"It's very funny to think that the neo conservatives go to war over oil - the compressed remains of million year old creatures, yet believes the world is young."

There is no evidence that oil is made over millions of years. In the lab it is produced quickly, just as coal, opal, petrified objects, fossils, stalagtites and stalagmites are formed.

There is a museum that has a petrified ham, which was petrified in only one year. Likewise, stalagtites and stalagmites can grow in just 50 years. Layered sedimentation is actually based on particle size of flowing material, and not of millions of years of layering. An entire layered sediment canyon was created in 3 hours by the Mt. St. Helen's eruption.

http://www.creationism.org/sthelens/MSH1b_7wonders .htm

Some other interesting links:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i4/ca nyon.asp
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2003/1209misso ula.asp
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i2/su rtsey.asp
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-155.htm
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-157.htm

Also note that a young earth creationist correctly predicted Uranus's electromagnetic field, while those believing in millions of years were incorrect.

http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-203.htm

No problem with church and state here.

[rice_burners_suck]

If the ACLU is against this, then I am for it! Look, it's a good idea to have different opposing viewpoints. How else are our young going to learn to choose what they believe is best? Truth is, this evolutionary theory, which you can claim has "time and time again" explained everything there is to know, is flawed. There are many holes and unexplained elements in this theory. Personally, I believe that evolution can and does exist, but as a component in a much more complex system created by (are you ready for this?) GOD! There is nothing wrong with teaching kids that: Some people think this; Some people think that; Some people think a combination of the two; You make up your own mind.

Oh yeah, and if you're in the United States and you get horrified when "church and state" get mixed, here's a pop quiz for you: Which amendment states: "The separation of church and state shall not be abridged." I bet nobody on Slashdot will be able to figure this one out.

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Answer: The first amendment is not the answer. It reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Note that Congress, not public schools, is the entity mentioned in this amendment. Also note that the rule is: no law respecting blah blah blah or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. So don't tell me that's what the almighty Constitition states, because it doesn't.

I Think the Term Morons Would be Pointless Here

[Master of Transhuman]

'Nuff said.

Well, not quite. To quote Aleister Crowley, "The Christians to the lions!"

Yes - that DOES mean I would like to see you all exterminated to the last man, woman and child.

And I will.

Have a nice day.