Sam wrote: > Extra terrestrials? If we can genetically modify plants and animals > who's to say someone else didn't do that to us. Can't we just teach > students that pieces of the puzzle are missing and here are some > ideas, as far out as they may be? Not in a Science Class and still call it a Science Class. Just replacing a specifically named deity with a generically named deity (I'm sorry 'Intelligent Designer') does not a scientific theory make. Why can't we just say there are missing pieces of the puzzle that can't be answered at this time and leave it at *that*. If these pieces can now or sometime in the future be observed and tested then they can and will be addressed by science. Until that time they are just that - 'questions'. *NO* explanation ,religious or otherwise, is needed by science.
Other disciplines rather then science, yes these thoughts can and should be discussed. From here they may someday find their way into science through proven scientific methods and principles. It has happened in the past, I am sure it will happen in the future. Why the rush with ID. Why can't it follow the path of its predecessors? Why does it need to be pushed to Joe Public? If extra terrestrials are involved in why we are here, someday somehow this will be observable and testable. Until that time do not try to make science something it is not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250002 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
