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Vote - Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neither116 Votes
Issue:Certainly, Intelligent Design is not scientific, but neither is evolution. Scientists neither observed nor verified by experiment macroevolution and the chemical formation of the first cell.Belief:Remove biological origins from the natural sciences and make it a separate course like archaeology, cryptology and other forensic sciences that rely on observation and logical inference.Loading People... |
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The two are mutually exclusive. The christians (and face it, it is christians who are complaining about evolution vs creationism aka "Intelligent Design") believe that God created the earth, then put a man on it, and then took a rib from that man and turned it into a woman. To those who believe this, how do you account for the fossil records of dinosaurs, which carbon dating has proven originated millions of years (or is it hundreds of millions?) before the earliest fossils of homosapiens? The theory of evolution is based on observation of fossil records, and creationism is based on religious writings. There is clear evidence of evolution (though I believe it is still called a "theory"), and there is absolutely zero evidence of creationism (I don't believe that religious writings constitute evidence).
There is no way that atheists and members of non-christian religions would accept that their children be exposed to christianity-based courses in public schools. Intelligent design, and all other religion-based courses, have no place in the classrooms of a multicultural society, at least in my opinion.
You can teach about both but that doesn't nessecarily mean the teacher is teaching that one or the other is true. In fact, its required that the option of evolution is presented but creationism is not required to be presented as an option in schools.
Why not teach both? Neither evolution nor a Creator can be proved to be false.
Trying to hold to one view and disclaiming the other makes one look foolish.
A lot of Christians can't believe evolution because they think it violates their faith. A lot of scientists think they can't believe in God because of what they know about evolution. I don't have a problem fitting the two together. All views should be presented in schools openly because at the end of the day - none of them are 100% certainties based on the facts we have.
The more I studied genomics the more incredible I found it to be. It's difficult to imagine that it all works and yet it does. Throughout history, the more we've learned about biology the more we realize that we don't understand. I view the human genome as the modern day Tower of Babel. I don't think we'll ever understand it all - I don't think we're supposed to. But that's just my opinion.
Clearly evolution isn't scientific since we don't have any experimental evidence and didn't directly observe it.
Oh wait, what's that? We do have experimental evidence? And natural sciences like geology and astronomy are also able to theorize on events that directly observed?
Huh. Well darn. I guess I'll have to stick with evolution.
Please state the evidence. It seems to me that the sponsor's point is valid: there is no evidence for macro-evolution. We see mutations and variation in kind, but there is no evidence of step-change, nor have we been able to make life.
In response to Nathan G.-I agree with most of what you said. The problem is that they teach evolution as truth and do not allow any prayers to be said unless it's under our breath. In other words like we should be ashamed of the fact that we love our Heavenly Father and hold Him above all else.
I should not, in response to Adam S., have to spend a lot of money to send my daughter to a private school so that she can openly pray. I'm not saying that the Bible should be taught in school-I believe that it is the parents job. That is to say that families should be sitting down daily and reading the Bible together, praying together, going to church and Sunday School where the Word of God is taught at least once a week. We go twice a week or more, so I practice what I preach. I do not in anyway want to force my religious beliefs down anyones throat, but don't force me not to worship in anyway that I choose.