2007-10-06 04:31:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
The reason is that the United States government is seperated from religion. The government gives funding to public schools, so it is natural that they wouldn't teach Intelligent Design at all these days. This is why they have religious schools too.
Also, by definition, evolution is a science while religion is a belief. This is another reason it isn't taught in a science class.
Besides, we all know how unfair religion has been to science when evidence rises against it. The Inquisition in Europe anyone?
We should give more credit to science. Did anyone notice when governments are run by religion, it doesn't industrialize as quickly as ones which allow free investigation of the natural world?
2007-10-06 07:42:38 · answer #1 · answered by Innovater Jill 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mostly because Intelligent Design has no scientific basis and never will have. It's a creationist theory put forward by certain religious groups in order to promote and justify their beliefs and has no credibility amongst genuinely qualified scientists. In fact intelligent design cannot withstand serious scrutiny as it's entire basis crumbles when faced with the cold hard light of current scientific knowledge.
With that said, the theory of evolution is constantly tested both scientifically and academically by the most rigerous methods and is amended as new evidence comes to light.
The fact that certain cretinous sections of the Christian faith can't live or deal with the truth is the reason for the big push for Intelligent Design to be taught in schools.
2007-10-06 04:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by Ian W 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Children do have the freedom to choose to believe in intelligent design, just like they can choose to not believe in the holocaust or choose to believe that the moon landing was staged. Just because they can believe anything they want, doesn't mean that teachers have to teach every idea on a subject.
The reason evolution is taught in school is that it is the scientifically acceptable explanation for life and fossils. Intelligent design, like astrology, is psuedo-science, and while people are free to believe it, it is not science and has no place in science education.
2007-10-06 07:38:50 · answer #3 · answered by jellybeanchick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution, or the history of how species developed over the eons & eons, is based on scientific discovery [like carbon dating, DNA studies, archeology, geology, etc.] and thus is usually folded into the core curriculum about biology and general science. Intelligent design [ID] is a philosophical or spiritual position taken by those Christian believers who interpret Genesis as a literal text. Thus, ID may well belong in a school curriculum--but certainly not as a replacement for studying evolution. ID is more of a religious subject--good for parochial or Christian academic places, but doesn't fit in a public school curriculum under the 'science' heading.
As for children being "given the right to choose" - how in the world could they "choose" without knowing much of either subject? More like parents choosing, right? We don't generally let children choose the foods they eat, either... for Twinkies [like ID] is scarcely nourishment!
2007-10-06 04:40:18 · answer #4 · answered by constantreader 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the duty of Schools it to teach the TRUTH to students and not fill their young and impressionable heads with fake science stuff... since Evolution is SCIENCE and Intelligent Design is "intelligent' in name only... it is NOT science.... it's not even fact.
2007-10-06 04:40:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because whoever runs the school system likes to make everyone beleive what he does. Its stupid, I know.
2007-10-06 04:35:33 · answer #6 · answered by ♣ мчα ♣ 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
because only one of them is science. they are not competing theories.
2007-10-06 04:38:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋