Should Intelligent Design be taught in school?
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Has the universe always existed? I don't think the universe has always existed nor has an endless cycle of universes existed . Human reason would question:how long "always" was, until this point in time. We would be perpetualing waiting to arrive. If the universe had a beginning it is portrayed as an uncaused cause on a galactic scale , nay ,a mind boggling universal scale .
Einstein said " we have all been fooled " there is no matter , just energy . As he reasons this, I cant help but consider the billions of other human beings with self-awareness pondering these same things. Very organized energy has awoke to self awareness and are taught that this is just a probablity due to expanse of odds...
I dont think so .
I think it should be allowed that children be encouraged to think outside the secular "box " . thought and opinions in todays school .
God stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing .-Job
This is accurate , The Bible also tells us that the stars are as the sand an innumerable . Scientists at the time believed there were 3000Many top physicists today and in times past have marveled at the laws of the universe . Why do these laws exist? Why does the universe seem fine-tuned for existence ? Some have said that the universe looks as though it was expecting mankind
Abiogenesis and the piltdown hoax
For over 40 years the piltdown hoax was taught in public schools , evidence at the monkey trials presented by Darrow was nothing more than a hoax . Recapitulation theory was taught in public schools for 150 years , basically worthless discredited theory .
Much of the debate centered around an interpretation of Genesis . That God had created everything and every animal in 6 days .Lets take a look at that :And God said: Let the waters bring forthAnd God said :Let the earth bring forthAbiogenesis: The study of life from non-life
Most of the original colleges in America were founded by organized religion,namely Christianity. As well as the one-room school houses that were originally Churches. More than likely your ancestors were taught how to read and write in these one room Church/schools. Later, this property was usually donated to public school systems.
Where was the seperation of Church and state then? Shouldnt public schools give this property back or at least acknowledge ,the debt that the citizens of the United States owe ,for their very literacy?
Should Intelligent Design be offered in some form in Public Schools at least elective?
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Intelligent Design should be taught in schools.
Most of the universities owe their beginnings also to Christianity, e.g. Harvard, Yale, etc.
Why are the universities not speaking up in protest against those who would like to ban prayer and taking out words like "IN GOD WE TRUST." America was built up by the pilgram fathers and became the greatest nation on earth. What happens now? That America has fallen down in so many areas? Wake up America!
Exactly Einron , most of the original colleges were founded by Christians and no one want to acknowlege this fact , as well as most hopsitals .
Actually, einron, America rejected the Pilgrim Father's by deciding that no one religion should rule the government. Pilgrims would not allow other beliefs in their colony. But your idea that Christianity played a large part in our beginning is basically correct. However, we were also a nation of laws, and most of those laws were English laws, from the English Common Law.
There were no public schools for some years at the start of our nation. Many students were taught either at home, by the local minister if their parents could pay for it, or they were not taught at all.
Oneof the reasons why Intelligent Design is not taught is because there is very little evidence to back it up. true, some ideas are put forth as evidence and proof, but so far they have either not been scrutinized by the scientific community, or they have been looked at and found wanting. I read that the evidence for I.D. is so stretched to make it nearly incomprehensible to all but those who want to believe it to be true. If you can convince any scientists and those in the research community to take a long and unbiased look at it, write papers in scientific journals backing up the idea, it might catch on. All new ideas in science get the same cold shoulder, skeptical look at first. It took decades for Darwin's ideas to become accepted by others working in science. Even today people in science question Darwins ideas and have found other evidence that either changes or amplifies his basic premise.
Thus the theory of evolution merely staes that some for of movement up the biological ladder took place, and since Darwin's time his pwn ideas have been tested, changed to meet new knowledge and some of his ideas were set aside as new knowledge was gained.
Science does not and never was meant to know all the answers. The basic idea of science is to look for answers. At times the lack of ability to scan the heavens must have made the number of stars look like about 3,000. with telescopes that number grew, and with modern trechnology, which is better but still not perfect, we count trillions upon trillions of stars and billions upon billions of galaxies.
In short, science grows in its knowledge, sets aside once credible ideas and replaces them with more sound hypothesis, theory and understanding. Do not confuse scienctific knowledge with arrogance: science is merely a tool that allows us to explore and understand the world around us.
this was very interesting i really enjoyed this hub thx for sharing your thought.
Chef Jeff tries to suggest and paint a revisionist view of history . Religion wasnt "rejected " it was "protected " -
Daniel P. Coughlin STL (born November 8, 1934) is the Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Appointed in March
Jeff wrote :However, we were also a nation of laws,English Common Law.
Phoenix:
And where do we get this law from ?
The doctrine of precedent developed under the inquisitorial system in England during the 12th and 13th centuries
Jeff wrote:
It took decades for Darwin's ideas to become accepted by others working in science.
Phoenix: Now the truth..
On the Origin of Species proved unexpectedly popular, with the entire stock of 1,250 copies oversubscribed when it went on sale to booksellers on 22 November 1859
The book aroused international interest, with less controversy than had greeted the popular Vestiges of Creation.
Darwin recieved Britain's highest scientific honour, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, awarded on 3 November 1864.
Scientist Believed that there were 3000 stars at one time . The Bible had an exact count of inumerable.
Recapitulation theory was taught for 150 years . Wheres that self correcting scientific honesty ?
If anyone questions why there isnt an abundant amount of transitional fossils ,evolution zealots come out of the woodwork to scream heretic .
I believe it should be taught to our children. I don’t find it any more ridicules than Darwin’s theories’s that we all evolved. The balance in nature and in the universe is too perfect to have happened by chance. On the other side I think the fundamentalists that want to say the earth was created in seven days are shooting themselves in the foot. On which one of the seven days were the dinosaurs created. We have the fossils to prove their existence. They want to take the Genesis account to mean a literal seven days. Do a little research first. The bible says a day to the Lord is as a thousand years. The day of judgment in revelations is described as a thousand years. There is no reason science and intelligent design theories can not coexist.
Imagine the outrage if the discussion were, should Wicca be taught in school? The answer would be no.
Intelligent design is not science, not even science fiction.
Children have a hard enough time understanding was is real and what is not. We put up with silly notions like the Tooth fairy, Santa Clause, the Great Pumpkin, but we wouldn't teach that stuff in school as science. Nor should we teach ID in school as science either.
An intelligent designer is a potential cosmological model. Conversely ,alluding to : Tooth fairies , Santa Clause {sic ,The great pumpkin are disingenuous, sophomoric arguments.
of course intelligent design should be taught in school. it is one of the most widely believed theories of how man came to be. evolution is also a theory and a non fool proof one at that. children should be taught both sides so they can come to their own conclusion and learn how to reason through a difficult issue in which the real answer is unknown.
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debrakcarey says:
6 months ago
Of course ID should be taught...children deserve to be thought HOW to think a thing through. Not taught to accept what anyone tells them just because they are in charge! Like you pointed out....many WRONG ideas were taught in the name of science...did those people (kids) get a chance to know or consider anything else? I think it is the height of conceit to think, in this day and age, that science knows everything. Look at how much, just in my lifetime, has been learned. My grandchildren, if given a chance, may know even more than we could comprehend! Great Blog Phoenix ( I almost typed KING...lol