Intelligent Design May Be Taught In Schools
An interesting piece on ABC Australia's 7.30 Report the other night. Click Here to see the transcript.
Apparently there are a number of politicians that want to have the idea of Intelligent Design taught in our school science rooms. It is a very popular idea in the US with much support from George W. Which, lets face it, is reason enough to do it here i feel. He is a very bright man...
This concept worries me greatly. I just finished reading a book all about Darwin and Evolution, so am am more knowledgable about the debate than i ever have been in the past. My greatest issue is that it is not in fact science. In actuality the whole concept in my mind is the absence of science. "Everything is so complicated that we can't understand it so it must be designed, and therefore there must be a designer." Of course this is a simplification, and if you want more info i'm sure it's out there to read, backed up with countless texts that have no scientific concepts, but do wholeheartedly aggree with each other.
It is the absence of science because it says "science has had enough time and can't understand things, so therefore they are un-understandable." The whole concept of science is that something isn't fact until it can be proved. Intelligent design is the complete opposite.
Teaching intelligent design in a science class is akin to teaching the idea that aliens exist and dropped us here on space ships. Both are not science, but pseudo-science. And both have been extensively debunked over the last 200 odd years. We need to be teaching kids about eh scientific method, and how these amazing discoveries and theories are developed. Not that since science hasn't got all the answers, we can just install our own.
There is a place for the concept of intelligent design, but it is a church, not in our schools.
The book i just finished that got me intrigued on the subject of evolution is in fact Ian Cohen and Jack Stewarts's latest Science of Discworld III : Darwins Watch. A great starter for people that have read a lot of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.
salu
RaC
Apparently there are a number of politicians that want to have the idea of Intelligent Design taught in our school science rooms. It is a very popular idea in the US with much support from George W. Which, lets face it, is reason enough to do it here i feel. He is a very bright man...
This concept worries me greatly. I just finished reading a book all about Darwin and Evolution, so am am more knowledgable about the debate than i ever have been in the past. My greatest issue is that it is not in fact science. In actuality the whole concept in my mind is the absence of science. "Everything is so complicated that we can't understand it so it must be designed, and therefore there must be a designer." Of course this is a simplification, and if you want more info i'm sure it's out there to read, backed up with countless texts that have no scientific concepts, but do wholeheartedly aggree with each other.
It is the absence of science because it says "science has had enough time and can't understand things, so therefore they are un-understandable." The whole concept of science is that something isn't fact until it can be proved. Intelligent design is the complete opposite.
Teaching intelligent design in a science class is akin to teaching the idea that aliens exist and dropped us here on space ships. Both are not science, but pseudo-science. And both have been extensively debunked over the last 200 odd years. We need to be teaching kids about eh scientific method, and how these amazing discoveries and theories are developed. Not that since science hasn't got all the answers, we can just install our own.
There is a place for the concept of intelligent design, but it is a church, not in our schools.
The book i just finished that got me intrigued on the subject of evolution is in fact Ian Cohen and Jack Stewarts's latest Science of Discworld III : Darwins Watch. A great starter for people that have read a lot of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.
salu
RaC
posted by Unknown | 9/01/2005 08:41:00 pm
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