They have already won a first round in the small Republican farm town of Dover in Pennsylvania, where last October the school board ruled that ID [Intelligent Design] should be given equal status with evolution. Eleven parents and the American Civil Liberties Union are now challenging the Dover board in a federal lawsuit - about time someone made a fight of it.Can you believe that a school board actually ruled in favor of these freaks?! One thing is certain, I'd pull my kids out of that school in a heartbeat. And if I couldn't I'd make sure to undo all the damage those teachers would inflict on their psyche by teaching those lies to them.
Unbelievable. Where is this country going?
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You should pull your kids out of that school! Parents should always have the final say on what their kids are being taught!
Including parents who think their kids ought to learn ID (which, coincidentally is not really a "lie" since no can prove an existential negative)...
Just because you can't prove that God doesn't exist, doesn't mean he exists and vice versa. It's matter of faith. You either believe or you don't.
However, the teaching done in schools shouldn't be based on faith. That should be left to the church. Schools should teach topics that will help you grow into a mature, wise, intelligent, centered individual, who can fully function in our society.
ID doesn't do that, not in the least. Let's be honest here and call it for what it is: trying to teach the Bible in school. If we can't agree on that basic point, no sense in discussing about it.
Bible should be taught either in church (for example, in Italy, kids are sent to church for a "class" that teaches them about the Bible, Jesus, etc... in preparation for their communion) or in a religion course, but not as a "theory" parallel or in substitution to science.
Why? Because the Bible isn't scientific. It's based on faith and it was written by human beings who believed in something they wanted other humans beings to believe as well.
Science is based on reseach, ID is based on faith. They AREN'T the same thing, so they shouldn't be compared. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
Teaching our kids that the Earth is 6,000 years old just because the Bible wasn't written 100,000 years ago, and so our planet can't be older than that, doesn't match the fact established by science through centuries of research that the Earth IS 4 billion years old.
And remember, science can prove that. The only thing the Bible can say is that you have to believe it. It can't prove that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
ID in your view isn't a lie, but you can't deny that it's nothing more than faith.
And it certainly isn't good to teach that to kids, especially when they are too young to understand that there is a huge difference between fact and faith.
I have another point to make. You say we should teach kids ID because some parents might want that for their kids. So, if some parents want their kids to be taught astrology or New Age therapy because they firmly believe in them, should we add those subjects to the scientific curriculum?
There are people who don't believe the Holocaust ever happened. What if those people have kids and want that "theory" to be taught alongside the current one?
Should we allow for that too?
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