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Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected
egjertse writes "A Louisiana law that opponents say leaves the backdoor open to teaching 'creationism' in public schools will stay on the books after a Senate committee Wednesday effectively killed a bill that would repeal the statute. After hours of testimony for and against House Bill 26, which repeals the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act, the senators narrowly deferred the legislation, effectively killing it in committee. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans."
Wow, why are you so closed minded towards other ideas?
The Discovery Institute has a few things to throw at evolution. One is based on information theory, and from a scientific philosophy standpoint it makes sense. It deals with the concept of systems being designed. For example to make an army tank vast amounts of design are required. You do not need to take God into account. You can stop at you have this colossal amount of information that makes a system. You do not have to consider who put it there if you do not want to, thus completely removing religion from intelligent design.
The part of the title "The Explosive Origin of Animal Life" is a hot topic. The problem is the Cambrian Explosion, from where the life you see today originated. The problem with it is it seemingly spontaneously erupted. There should be a clear fossil record of organisms progressing to the Cambrian Explosion organisms, but the fossil record doesn't seem to be lining up. Darwin himself said the theory breaks down until that is resolved. He said that there will be something found in the fossil record to explain it which they had not discovered yet (from about 1860's / 1870's). This area of the fossil record is quite murky, but some finds in China are helping to drill it down. I believe the Cambrian Explosion problem will be resolved within about 100 years. Paleontology is becoming quite advanced.
I do not see a problem with an information theory based Intelligent Design being taught in schools, because it is sound science. And the perplexities of evolutionary theory, mainly the Cambrian Explosion problem should be taught too, because that is sound and very exciting science.
Frankly I think someday the final thought will be an Intelligent Design came up with Evolution.