The Jury is Out
Let’s go ahead and say that the jury is still out on gravity, the atom, the sun being the center of the solar system, and the earth being round as well.
Years ago, President Bush famously said that “the jury’s still out” when referring to the question of evolution. Today, during a roundtable discussion with several journalists, the President announced that he backs the teaching of Intelligent Design alongside the theory of evolution.
As if our education system weren’t bad enough already, we are now going to teach our kids that the earth and all its wonders were created by a little man in the sky? Or perhaps…many little men in the sky?
Why not use facts and evidence to back your claims? Like this documentary the premieres next week on the History Channel?
Intelligent Design is a pseudo-science at best and does not seek out answers to life’s mysteries through logic and reasoning. It instead leaves most of the real “leg work” to faith. But what if you just don’t have faith and want proof?
So how can we justify teaching it in our schools? This is perhaps the best definition I’ve encountered:
Intelligent design is the proposition that some unspecified entity which is currently unobservable used unknown techniques and tools to achieve an unknowable goal at an indeterminate moment in the past.
This proposition is not specific enough to be considered science, or even a theory.
If this kind of suggestion is allowed to be made in the science community, any insane quack could say anything, such as:
At an indeterminate moment in the past, something unknown at this time happened to cause an unknowable reaction which may already have occurred or may occur in an unknowable amount of time.
This is a disgrace to the human race.
– from evowiki.org via signaltonoise
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