Wesley R. Elsberry
Posts: 4991
Joined: May 2002
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| Quote | | You are falling into the trap of assuming that "Intelligent Design" is inconsistent with Evolution. |
The "intelligent design" pushed by the Discovery Institute certainly is such. There's no trap there, just an ability to recognize that a re-labelling of the same old antievolution arguments still has antievolution as its content.
Science isn't about what cannot be disproved. Science is about those ideas whose consequences can be tested in some way by our experience of the world.
Consistently, those who want science and only science taught in science classes have no objections to loading up a comparative religion course with stuff about "intelligent design" and other accounts of origins that haven't passed scientific muster. But ID advocates just as consistently have no interest in pushing for that sort of inclusion in K-12 curricula.
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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