Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law

H0D_G writes "The US state of Louisiana has passed the 'Science Education Act,' a piece of legislation that could allow Intelligent design to be taught in schools. From the article: 'The act is designed to slip ID in "through the back door"'"

Comments

FSM?

[Anonymous Coward]

Will they pass a Flying Spaghetti Monster law, too?

It's at least equally as valid as ID.

ID vs Evolution

[jimwelch]

Choose:
A. Freedom: (Teach all versions)
B. Censorship: (Teach Evolution only)
C. Censorship: (Teach ID only)
D. Teach nothing.

First the Church did censorship (B), then the scientist did censorship (C), I think it is about time for Freedom (A).

Re:And they wonder why. . .

[Frosty Piss]

If they like being laughingstocks, that's no skin off my nose.Dude, it's Louisiana.

Re:Is Darwinism so sacrosanct?

[Mesa MIke]

Your post is as acrimonious as it is cowardly anonymous.

But I'm not complaining.
This is Slashdot, after all, where a good sneer is almost always as good an argument as any.

Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then..

[TheRaven64]

Well, if the other choice is being a Republican politician then coming out of the closet probably doesn't seem so bad after all...

Re:It's all a moot point anyway

[glitch23]

Really the issue at hand is not whether your faith or absence thereof is "right", it is that faith does not belong in science class. Faith belongs in church, and at home, and in bible study groups. Faith belongs in your heart, with your friends, not in science class.

So all the faith (assumptions) that geologists, biologists, etc. make about our world now because they didn't live a billion years ago is okay because it is "scientific" faith as opposed to "religious" faith? All the "must have"s (e.g. man must have came from apes because we found some organisms that look like both man and ape) that we see in /. submissions linking to scientific articles basically are implying there are assumptions being made and faith is put into those assumptions in order to build on them to create bigger assumptions and theories. Why is that faith any different?