Intelligent Design vs. Evolution: Why is it an issue?

Question

i personally think that if they make an Issue out of this (i mean SERIOUSLY ID is NOTHING but Creationism with a mask on) they should simply Stop teaching Science in the classroom. but thats just me i'd like to hear what you think.

and yes i believe if we make an Issue about this in Kansas we should get rid of Science and if they let kids in West Virginia play Dance Dance Revolution in PE i say get rid of PE too. all thats just side banter. what I asked was thus: Why is it an Issue? try answering the question before you give your Smartass Answers please. As for all you Religious Bigots (thats anyone who simply referred to a Religion as being Correct) you are also a moron, its not the question i asked. WHY is it an Issue?

Answer 1

RIGHT.

Answer 2

I have no idea with churches teaching that God created the earth.... but when they try to go beyond that and claim that science is wrong, they are going beyond the realm of spirituality.

Years ago, science was blasted for teaching that the Sun, and not the earth was the center of the solar system. The Earth was flat. Man couldn't fly. Black people and Native Americans were savages or less than human. Women were intellectually inferior to men.

Religion and superstition have done much more harm than science. Science may have discovered the principles that made weapons possible, but it has usually been men of religion that have created and used the weapons themselves.

So, if religion can control science, religion can control mankind. By bending the minds of our young, religion can control the future. By making everything sacred instead of neutral religion holds areas of science as taboo and not to be questioned or investigated. By claiming to KNOW already, there is no need to investigate.

Many religions hold certain beliefs so fastly, that if they are proved wrong, the foundations of that religion crumble. If a Church teaches that genesis was written by God, and it is to be taken LITERALLY, then if any literal interpretation is proved wrong, Genesis, and by extrapolation, God is wrong. Thus endeth the relition.

Catholics have taken a more sober viewpoint in saying that God created the earth, but that religion doesn't have the details. Still, historically, they have been the most adamant, only recently letting science take the lead in investigating the details.

Personally, I believe that the chaos was stirred by some conscious energy. I marvel in the way everything has come to be, and I mourn at the way humankind is destroying this sacred Earth. Still, I leave it to science to discover the ways that things came to be on our planet. I trust that true science has no agenda other than to discern the truth; that it isn't trying to prove religion wrong. LIkewise, if someone could prove that the complexity of life couldn't have come without some being consciously placing the elements of life in specific places, if they could find a specific fingerprint, maybe it might be taken more seriously. As yet, the only believers of Intelligent design are it's practicioners and religious folk. I don't know of any leading scientist who have crossed over.

And Galileo finally was vindicated.... sort of.

Answer 3

Bilingual education is controversial. They should stop teaching English and foreign languages.
The attitudes in history textbook are controversial. They should stop teaching History.
If three loudmouths complain, anything should be pulled from the curriculum.

Public education has enough problems. We don't need to start slashing the curriculum because a vocal minority takes offense at this that or the other thing. Intelligent Design was a last ditch effort at slipping religion into public education, after "Scientific" Creationism died in the courts. The courts easily smelled the perfume on the pig and shot it down. Case closed.

Answer 4

The issue (any issue for that matter) arises, because 'enquiry' is in the nature of human beings. So, humans have been wondering 'why' and 'what' of the universe too. In the process, religions and believers too have some ideas of their own on the matter and started expressing.

As for the science, it need not be said that it tries to resolve matters/issues on scientific arguments, hypothesis. Religion is not like that. It demands faith in the dogmas. That's why the scientific facts/theories are subject to changes/modifications based on the new evidences on any matter.

So, if there is an issue regarding intelligent design versus evolution, what is wrong? It may be good both for the science and religion too.

Answer 5

It's not an issue. Creationism fails just about every test that a topic needs to pass in order to be classified as "science", and almost the entire scientific community realizes this. No one who isn't bent on pushing a religious agenda has any problem with evolution, or gives any credit to "Intelligent Design."

Edit: When I say creationism fails every test, I'm talking about the fact that it's untestable, unobservable, unfalsifiable, unprovable, and it relies on a supernatural explanation -- something like that is just not science.

Answer 6

The ignorant will always claim knowledge while the knowledgeable will always _admit_ to ignorance.

Ignorance is easy because you only have to read one book to be certain; knowledge is hard because you can read every book and be uncertain.

As well, the ignorant always try to use strong arm tactics while the knowledgeable try to use strong arguments.

It's not about right and wrong, but about religious violence against intellectual non-violence.

Cretinism - oops, creationism - the easy answer for the intellectually lazy. Evolution costs and doesn't guarantee all the answers, even if you learn everything, and that requires not just intelligence, but maturity, to accept it.


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Answer 7

Maybe Intelligent Design shouldn't be taught in classrooms, but neither should Evolution. Evolution violates one of the basic laws of physics. Things do not go from a less ordeded state to a more complex system. I believe that Darwin would reject his own idea today if he knew the things about micro biology that we know study today. Even now I suspect that many of the world's elite scientists are searching through space to try and make contact with the Aliens who created us. Life created by little green men makes more sense than believing all living things evolved from single cell organisams.

respectfully,

Answer 8

Yes, let's stop teaching science. It's not like we'll ever need more doctors or physicists or environmentalists or geneticists or chemists or astronomers or engineers ....

We need science. YOU need science. You cannot be an informed citizen of this country without knowing the basics - scientific illiteracy is as henious as regular illiteracy.

Which is why we need REAL science, not fake science or pseudoscience or 'biblical science'. People need to be able to make the destinction, which they obviously can't do now.

Answer 9

They tried to teach ID in Kansas, but the school board members who voted in favor of teaching that "theory" were not re-elected. I don't know of any other states who are trying to add ID to their teaching curriculum, so right now it is a non-issue.

Answer 10

Sorry but both theories are correct. the Creator did not always get it correct the first time . That's why He erased the world many times . Until He came up with a design that had the best possibility's.
But before anything can try to evolve it first has to be created and tried.

Answer 11

If the theory cannot be backed up with the scientific method then kick it to the curb. Science in the science room, religion in theology class.