Teaching Creationism in Schools

I see no reason why intelligent design should not be taught. I think that it's silly to assume only one way of science, and completely disregard another plausible way.

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The key word is "plausible". ID is not science.

Kieren - have you seen how ID does science? Would you want to teach your kids that they can produce any half-arsed piece of work, pass it off as science, ignore their critics, claim victory and get upset when everyone laughs at them?

Waterloo! Waterloo!

It amazes me that many people want to use explanations for creation that are thousands of years old. We should be using our our own people and technology to explain phenomena in our time, as people in the past did in their own time. I've never understood the logic that our modern scientific views arrived at by careful hypothesis testing and comparing of results should be sublimated to a bronze age view of the Universe. Baffling.

Kieran, I agree that any theory about the origins of life should be taught in school. The problem is that ID is not a theory, it's only a hypothesis. For it to gain the status of 'theory', it must be published in a scientific journal and then when other scientist can reproduce or confirm the evidence, it can be called a theory. However, there is no evidence, to back up any of the claims of ID, that has actually passed peer review. So why teach something like that in schools?.

The video is true in it's facts, but ignors the problem of Home Schooling, against which sicence has no power to make a standard for instruction. American children taught at home may recieve an education that will produce a person not able to enter higher education and compete with their peers for good jobs. This is important to combat because it keeps the future of America in danger of becoming a third world country. If we don't want to teach English as a second language we had better protect public education. Oh, notice that we now have to press 1 to hear menus in English. It used to say press 1 to hear Spanish. Maybe one day our phone may say menus in Chinese. Think about it!

The only reason ID is not a teory is because the scientific world refuses to accept it as one. Evolution and ID have the same evidence, just different starting points in interpretation. Both are possible explanations for origins of life, but no one will take ID that way because it implies a higher power...and the consensus is that no loving God would allow so many horrible things to manifest in his creation. If anyone would actually read the Bible instead of eating evolutionist crap, maybe people would finally understand why the world is the way that it is (hint: IT ISN'T GOD'S FAULT!)

micky - ID doesn't imply a higher power. ID researchers say that it doesn't say anything about who the designer is.

Some argue creationism isn't plausible because it cannot be proven..
In reality, neither has evolution. Evolution ultimately also comes down to faith because we cannot use the scientific method to prove evolution, We cannot observe evolution because we are here and now, we cannot go back in time to see cells becoming a rock becoming a world/universe becoming water with fish becoming animals on land with brains and eyes and the ability to think/reason/love/feel emotions!

we weren't there to see creaiton or evolution.. therefore we do not know 100% what happened.. both are faith..
both are views as to how we came to be, therefore both are equally a privilege to learn
Because evolution is faith, and we cannot prove that evolution happened, and because there is significant evidence also in support of evolution being false, evolution could be considered a religion as well since it is faith-based and a belief...