Rick writes: So go ahead. Mock away. Teach about how UFOs, Flat Earth, Green Cheese on the Moon, and intelligent, purposeful, design for life are ideas only morons can accept. My point was that Mr. Davenport scarcely seemed to be a "moron." Moreover, some of you may recall John Mack, the Harvard psychiatrist who found alien-abduction narratives to be credible. Very smart people believe all sorts of things. I don't believe that proponents of ID are "morons"; I simply am not convinced that their views have anything to do with science as conventionally understood. (As I've written before, the word "conventionally" carries all sorts of baggage, which I'm willing to live with.) The question is when should their (statistically) deviant views be welcomed (or, more to the point, forced) into the classroom. I gather from the tone of Rick's comment that he is in fact not a fan of teaching that UFOs might be real (and that the US is covering up the evidence). I don't know his views on alien abduction. sandy
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