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To: "Teaching in the Psychological > I'd go further. I support the heresy
(from the science camp standpoint) that ID
> _should_ be taught in the classroom. For two reasons:
>
> 1) Refusing to discuss ID in the classroom, when ID has been presented to
many
> students elsewhere as a credible alternative to evolution, sends exactly
the
> wrong message about science. It says that science suppresses views it
disagrees
> with, rather than debating and refuting them with logic and evidence. This
is
> the way religion operates, not science. We want students to understand
this
> distinction, and the best way to ensure that they do is to meet the ID
> challenge head on. To refuse to discuss ID suggests to students that it
> represents a valid alternative which evolutionists are unable or afraid to
> debate.
>
I think the injunction is against *teaching* ID (as an alternative
to evolutionary theory), *not* discussing it as a social event (as one might
discuss any other social event that bears upon science, e.g., scientific
fraud in Korea, etc.)
Paul Okami
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