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August 3, 2005
I Hope They Include an "Earth is Flat" Section
President Bush said that he thought schools should include teachings about "intelligent design" in their curriculums. You can read the full article here.
President Bush said Monday he believes schools should discuss "intelligent design" alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life.
It certainly makes me wonder what is fact and what is conjecture. If science is the study of natural phenomena based on systems, measurement and analysis, how does this compare to the thinking and analysis of intelligent design? Or is that a contradiction, because we cannot analyze intelligent design? Some guy, or guys, no women please, wrote a few thousand years ago that such and such happened. So that is it, end of discussion, an established act that can't be refuted, and is as valid as anything determined by science? Are we now suggesting that the foundation for the scientific method is potentially faulty? Wow, maybe we should stop and think about the implications of that for the rest of the afternoon. If people don't believe in the scientific method and science, will they give up those things developed by that method, like their cars, TV, computers, and cellphones?
Posted by Chip Spear at August 3, 2005 1:08 PM
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