Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (101715)	1/24/2009 6:40:01 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543196

Without seeing the wording of such an addition, any further discussion is moot. And as I said originally, I personally don't have a dog in the fight. I don't want religion per se taught in the public schools. My sense of this issue has always been simply that the religious community believes schools are teaching as fact that man evolved from ape-like creatures. And they're just saying 'not so fast', the notion that God created man full-blown can't yet be fully discounted....the fossil record is incomplete. So it's still a moot question as to who created who. If this is the approach by the 'intelligent design' groups, I'm just saying I might not have a problem with it..... depending on how the text of it reads. I'm also willing to bet that the far-left assumption that these groups are wacked out fanatics against science per se is an overstatement.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (101715)	1/24/2009 6:45:43 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543196

tell ya what if we can put in the Norse myths of creation, and the Hindu ones, and all the other creation myths, and perceptions of "design" then fine- the last chapter of the science book can hold the collective mythology of humankind- but it has to be so labeled :-)

To: cosmicforce who wrote (101715)	1/24/2009 7:34:33 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543196

CF, is evolution taught as theory or fact? Is the Big Bang concept taught as theory or fact? I just learned that the push to include teaching the theory of intelligent design in a school curriculum originated from within the scientific community, not the religious community. It started in the 90s. Apparently there are well-credentialed scientists who in their work (quite a bit of it in DNA molecular science) saw more evidence of design as opposed to randomness. They are agnostic with regard to religion. I got over my head scientifically within a few paragraphs, but found it interesting as I had assumed the push was by the strictly religious. At any rate, their argument is that the teaching of ID as theory is justifiable, particularly since evolution and the Big Bang are taught as theory.