Since most of the blogs I have read recently deal with evolution and what we have discussed in class, I thought that I would write my input. Dealing with the debate between evolution and intelligent design (creationism), I think that they are both theories. When I was taught in school about evolution, I was taught that it was a theory. My teacher never said "This is what you should believe." Honestly, the whole fight over which one should be taught is kind of ridiculous. Students are going to chose to believe whatever they want to believe. Evolution seems to have a lesser way of causing trouble, but that is my opinion. Granted there are those religious people who think that creationism is the way to go since God was the one who created man. However, if school systems enforced the teachings of intelligent design, I think that would just cause a whole lot more chaos than with evolution. If parents want their children to learn intelligent design, then they should have them taught that at churches, maybe at youth groups.
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I agree with what you are saying, I think it would be wrong for public schools to teach intelligent design in classrooms because of it's connections with religion. I find this whole debate about evolution interesting because I went to Catholic school from elementary school through high school. I remember in biology being taught the 'theory' of evolution, and not realizing that there was so much debate about it. I guess we listened to the theory, and didn't really talk about how it went against out religion, I think to avoid the controversy!
while i agree that the debate is ridiculous (probably for different reasons though), i think that you underestimate the influence on young minds these issues can have, and also overestimate peoples ability to reason on their own. People are a lot more stupid than you give them credit for and easily influenced. Thats why the debate is so heated, they (creationist/fundamentalists) understand the importance of young minds and education. its a threat, a critical threat.
I'm totally with you, people need to keep religion in church. Evolution is a theory and it's up to the individual to form their own beliefs.
A couple of things to keep in mind:
- ID is not a theory in any way shape or form, and as such has no place in any science class. Philosophy perhaps. The whole idea of teaching the "controversy" is logically flawed as well.
- ID is NOT Creationism. Those are two wholly different points of view. Creationism is stating the earth is approximately 6000 years old and was created in 6 days. ID is an theistic apologists attempt to accept the whole mountain of evidence, and accept that evolution happened, but instead of saying that nature caused species to evolve in a specific way, they say that things are the way they are because some guy in the sky planned it all that way.
I agree, religion is nothing but trouble. Heck, even xtians have 38,000+ different sects out there, so which one of them should hold sway in the debate?
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