Government has not mandated that religious schools deny
ID or any form of creationism, but science programs at the state universities
have no need of that sort of information, and so they deny entrance to kids
trained in those topics.
Not quite. They deny entrance to
kids not trained in real science. If they were saying it is not enough
that you took a standard biology course, you also have to have not learned
anything about ID in some other course, this would be a very different
case.
Douglas Laycock
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Darrell
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:58 PM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: Kansas and Intelligent Design: A Twist
Let the marketplace of ideas sort it out. If ID has any validity in
science, it will be in demand -- and if so, the private schools that teach it
will have graduates in the forefront of that science who will be highly in
demand. The story of Semmelweiss might remind us that sometimes religious
ideas can have practical applications, and when they do the practical
applications will manifest themselves.
Isn't that the issue in the suit against the University of California
system?
Those companies and agencies who employ graduates of the biology programs
of the California state universities (both UC and CS) also have no need of ID,
which is one of the drivers of the requirement of the schools, I suspect.
Agricultural giants like ADM and pharmaceutical leaders like Genentech have
little use for ideas that don't or can't produce marketable products, and they
hire accordingly from the ranks of university graduates.
Unless government steps in to shore up ID, ID will fade away if it is not
workable science. That is true of almost all science applications.
Ed Darrell
Dallas
"Christopher C. Lund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't want to get into an argument defending ID. Others do it better.
And I don't find ID persuasive. But I wonder what will happen to those who
do. Let me ask people on the listserv this next question: Should the
government force private religious schools to explicitly deny ID? (If it is
like banning the phlogistonistic view of chemistry or teachings contrary to
the germ theory of disease, should we even hesitate?)
Chris
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