Posted by Ilene on September 6, 2005, at 15:11:38
In reply to Re: Evolutionary Theory and Creationism » alexandra_k, posted by messadivoce on September 6, 2005, at 14:24:36
I have a degree in biology (not that I ever used it). I currently live in California, and I'm glad that schools don't teach Creationism or Intelligent Design. If I thought otherwise, I'd send my kids to a school that thought the same way I do. That's what very religious people often do.
This is a political controversy, not a scientific one. The bedrock of science is to consider all explanations that fit the full range of evidence. Both Creationism and ID have been considered against that standard. Neither have met it. Evolution has. From a scientific point of view, no controversy or debate exists, any more than there is a debate that foul air causes Malaria. The current debate is now political. Politicians are (usually) not scientists. Politicians and scientists have very different rules concerning debates. What underlies this debate is a desire on the part of some politicians and the people they represent to change the rules about public education. The courts have ruled against a direct inclusion of theology in the classroom. In the political process, a controversy is necessary to a debate and to effecting a political change. That is what is at work here.
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