| We do not ban teaching that illness is caused by spiritual malaise or misalignment with the essence of the universe or any of a huge number of non-germ theories. That is the more close analogy to ID -- first causes or causes outside the realm of scientific explanation. I recall being taught the "shrunken apple" theory of mountain formation -- before we understood plate techtonics. Wrong as the shrunken apple theory is, I doubt anyone bothers to ban it -- or any number of obsolete teachings. They just select/approve books which reflect more current understandings from which to teach. Besides, the problem is not that ID is wrong -- it could even in some version be correct - -there might be a creator god out there -- it is just that it is not science -- and so it is wrong as a scientific explanation of evolution. It is that which can be limited -- not the teaching in general of controversial and even wrong ideas. Steve On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Christopher C. Lund wrote:
-- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8428 2900 Van Ness Street NW mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC 20008 http://www.law.howard.edu/faculty/pages/jamar "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. . . . Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King, Jr., (1963) |
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