But to me, that's even more dishonest. The entire point behind teaching science and the methods involved is to not jump to conclusions. You can whitewash creationism with Intelligent Design misdirection all you want, but it still boils down to jumping to a conclusion - namely that your god created everything. That is not a logical conclusion by any stretch of the imagination.
After a frustrating inability to solve a problem during a quiz in my Euclidean Geometry class in high school, I submitted the proof with some 20 steps laid out, followed by the Divine Intervention Theorem, with the proof that segments arcs MN and GH were equal. Naturally, I didn't get the proof correct, but I did learn what I was missing to prove that the arcs were indeed equal. The Divine Intervention Theorem, for all my snarky applicability, wasn't acceptable, because it wasn't a logical construct.
It's not the strongest analogy, but I'm fine with the idea that we don't know every answer to Life, the Universe and Everything (42). There are lots of things I don't understand, but I don't need to fall back on divine providence to explain the inexplicable to comfort me.
- Jim
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