Intelligent Design Taught in Pennsylvania

[100% ILL]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/19/evolution.debate.ap/index.html

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- High school students heard about "intelligent design" for the first time Tuesday in the Pennsylvania school district that attracted national attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative to the theory of evolution.

The district is believed to be the only one in the nation to require students to hear about intelligent design -- a concept that holds that the universe is so complex, it had to be created by an unspecified guiding force.

"The revolution in evolution has begun," said Richard Thompson, the law center's president and chief counsel. "This is the first step in which students will be given an honest scientific evaluation of the theory of evolution and its problems."

[ASsman]

Nice, and you thought Cults were a thing of the past. They're making a comeback baby! Like Punk Rock!





The phrase "Intelligent Design," used in this sense, was first widely publicized by legal scholar Phillip E. Johnson in his 1991 book Darwin on Trial (earlier references can be found in creationist literature). Johnson's argument, and a key tenet of the ID movement, is that philosophical naturalism is false. ID proponents argue that the standard scientific model of evolution by natural selection is insufficient to explain the origin, complexity, and diversity of life, and that the universe is "fine tuned" for living things in a manner that must have been by design
"Fine tuning" like when that big snow storm happened right, and like it's because animals were getting too hairy and stuff.



The vast majority of scientists and scientific institutions reject the ID claims as being scientifically illegitimate. Organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences and the National Center for Science Education describe ID as pseudoscience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design

Personally I prefer "The Matrix" theory, that we are all living in a virtual world. A world created to keep us from the truth.. that we are all being used a giant batteries, to power super-intelligent robots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix
I think it would be much more popular in schools than this "old school" "intelligen design" crap.

[Qdrop]

this is the most depressing thing i have heard since bush won the re-election.

fuckin A.

What exactly are they teaching these kids?
that "intelligent design is a viable theory"?

the fuck?

"kids....the universe is sooooo big and scary...and we don't know everything about it......cause that's reeeeeeaaaal hard.....so we would like to introduce the idea that..ummm....GOD DID IT!"

oh...that's rich.

[Señor Stino]

the universe is so complex, it had to be created by an unspecified guiding force.


then that guiding force must be so complex, it must have been created by an unspecified guiding force ....

luckily Assman pointed out ID is a pseudoscience

[Qdrop]

"okay class........who can tell me why hydrogen bonds with oxegen?....mary?"

mary: "umm.......cause God made it happen!?!?"

"good enough, mary.....good enough."

[ASsman]

No no no, not A God. Read the link, it explains it very well.
It could be we are clones of an advanced alien race, or we are in some Twilight Zone episode, in which we are nothing but playthings to Mr. Sterling.

Found another great link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_public_education

[100% ILL]

Thye can't specifically say "God" you see, because that would be considered religious. The idea is that so many people believe that man was created and did not evolve, but those people come from various religous backgrounds. Intelligent design is suited to satisfy all those varying religious and non-religious people who believe we are to complex to have happened by accident. Here's a link


http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~idea/idtheorymenu.htm


http://www.speakout.com/activism/opinions/3116-1.html

[ASsman]

Obviously these people haven't seen Final Destination, the movie. Those are the Cirque De Solei of accidents.
(yah I know I spelled that gay Circus' name wrong)

[FunkyHiFi]

This is a disgusting development. And the arrogance of some of these religious people is incredible.

A school is for the teaching of facts as best we know them.

Religion needs to be taught at a place called a church, synagogue, etc and/or by that child's parents.

Luckily though, on a local TV news broadcast here I heard that quite a few science teachers in that district refused to read that ID statement--that's why school administrators had to come in to some classrooms & read it to the students instead.

Evolution isn't "just" a theory--these airheads make it sound like evolution is some flimsy idea cooked up overnight by a stoned scientist, rather than a concept with shit-loads of solid data to back it up. Because I'm pretty sure God didn't scatter all those dinosaur bones and insects in amber everywhere just to mess with our heads. :rolleyes: This planet has been around 4.6 BILLION years--does anybody here really have a true mental grasp of much f'ing time that involves??? I kind of do, but only because geology was one of my minors in college. Folks, LOTS of things can happen in this incredibly enormous amount of seconds/minutes/hours/days. Humans only last an average of 75 years so it is difficult for us to understand such a concept.

Less than 200 years ago people didn't know germs/bacteria existed because life on such a tiny scale was unimaginable, despite all the things that mysteriously happened that had no visible cause (like infections after medical operations, or plagues): "I can't see anything, so you must be a fool!". Then microscopes were invented...............

And personally speaking, I think there's room for evolution and God in the same universe. :eek:

[ASsman]

And personally speaking, I think there's room for evolution and God in the same universe.
Duh, else faith would be pointless. Idiots can't get that through their fucking heads.
If you could prove that God existed beyond a doubt.... why the fuck have faith. It wouldn't be a "test" of any kind believing in him, it would be like.. so the sky is blue..let's have a religion.

While we are on the topic...

http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm

[bb_bboy]

I thought that this was going to be a thread about green architecture, LEED ratings and renewable energy.