> -----Original Message----- > From: DRE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:50 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Bush wants religion taught in the science classroom > > What kills me is that ID is a product of evolution! They couldnt get > creationism into schools so they changed it to something that might.
Well - that's not really "evolution". ;^) Biological Evolution is a very useful metaphor for many processes: social, economic, geological, anthropological, etc but none of them are really "Evolution" in the biological sense (and it's only biological evolution that's being challenged by ID). But the argument still stands: ID is considered by many to be a "wedge" strategy which is why it's fought to stridently. This is borne out to at least some degree by the fact that many vocal proponents of ID are also Christian Fundamentalists. The ID "movement" has a definite, organized "two prong" approach: 1) Add ID to current curricula. They want their theory taught in schools. This is actually quite odd, especially in science. Very rarely do proponents of a scientific idea lobby school boards for inclusion. Rather the idea becomes accepted in the broad, professional scientific community first and is added "naturally". 2) Downgrade Evolution. This is the worse side of things in my opinion. Whether or not ID is added to the curricula IDers in general (or at least the vocal ones) lobby to have Evolution disclaimed or, at worst, removed from the required curricula. Again, this is very odd in science. Science is full of competing theories and explanations but few are as generally accepted as Evolution. Again this is an attempt to circumvent the natural dissemination of science information from research to professional acceptance to curricula. There is little question in my mind that those IDers than are picketing school boards and proposing disclaimers in schoolbooks are religiously motivated. However there are also IDers that are legitimate scientists. They are attempting to test their hypothesis and are working within the confines of science. They will defend their hypothesis but will also admit that much more work needs to be done in the efforts to confirm it. However these folks are unfortunately in the silent minority. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:167736 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
