Intelligent Design Vs When Stunts Go Bad
The "theory" of Intelligent Design has been one of the hot-button topics of the year. On one side you have the creationists that want their beliefs represented in science classes in the US. On the other hand you have those that believe religion should be kept in religious education classes. It probably won't surprise you to find out that I am on the side of those that believe ID should not be taught in science classes. It's not science, it's faith. Science is the business of attempting to prove positives about the universe around us. Faith is about trusting what you believe in regardless of the absence of any positive proof.To be honest this isn't a debate I've got much invested in; there is no danger in the UK of ID being taken seriously in science lessons, so all I draw from this whole controversy is some wry amusement at the circle jerk discussions that are flooding the web where people with a deeply held faith in creationism try to talk Darwinists out of their belief in natural selection, and vise-versa. The only reason I am raising the issue here at all is that it presents some kind of legitimacy in me posting videos of people going out of their way to demonstrate why I personally don't believe in Intelligent Design, and why I do think that Darwin's principals are broadly sound.
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What do you think about this report from the BBC?
Millions of Americans, most of them supporters of the Republican party, believe that the world was created only a few thousand years ago as per the account in Genesis and the dinosaurs can only date from then, so the Tyrannosaurus Rex romped around with Adam and Eve.
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But evangelical Christians, operating inside the Republican party ... are campaigning, for instance, to tell visitors to the Grand Canyon that this wondrous sight is not millions of years old, which it is.
[Via Reza Behforooz]
I remember listening to that article a few weeks back (From Our Own Correspondent is available as a Podcast). In some ways it's pretty scary stuff, but I think that in general the US has a strong enough foundation that these kind of beliefs aren't going to become taught as fact in any wide-spead manner.
This looks like an interesting programme from that staunch Darwinian - Richard Dawkins.
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