Quickie on ID
It bothers me that the only witness to the defense in the trial in PA regarding the presentation of Intelligent Design in schools is a Lehigh Biochemistry Professor. I freely support the notion that people have the right to believe in whatever they want. I just don’t like it that a person employed by my alma mater, a fairly highly regarded scientific institution of learning, is equating Lehigh with “ID is good” in the media.
I think it’s just fine for people to question Darwinian thought. I disagree that this questioning process can involve the answer “well what about if God/the aliens/nameless almight being” did it? That is philosophy and theology (pastafarianism as well), not biology. Go ahead and teach it in schools. Just not part of the “science” curriculum. And for pete’s sake, stop calling evolution “Just a theory”. It’s not a guess. I have a feeling that the people who subscribe to the “just a theory” line of thought would be equally flabergasted at me saying “it’s just a commandment”…
Ok. Pissed off enough people for today…
October 20th, 2005 at 8:32 am
Welcome to the blogosphere cracka!
October 24th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
I was quite insulted when evolution was taught in 8th grade. I thought it suspect to teach a religion in school during an impressionable time of a persons life. Every time my teacher said evolution, I made sure she said ‘the theory of’ in front of it.
October 24th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
Lawtonfunk,
You must indeed fill me in on your feelings of Evolution and Natural Selection being a religion.
As to it being “a theory”: Technically speaking, so is Big G Gravity (little g gravity being the constant used in calculations in finding the effect of Big G gravity on two bodies).
October 25th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
Ok. Mr. funk hasn’t responded yet, so I will fill in on my feelings on such things:
Evolution looks backwards at our origins and the multitudes of life that have come before. It can be used to look at what indeed may come, but is not very good at it and leaves much to be desired.
Religion looks forwards into our being. It should be used for what may come, and to foster ideas of betterment. It should not be used to look backwards, as it is not very good at it and leaves much to be desired.
Where one draws the lines between past, present, and future, as well as the interactions between the tenses, lies confined in the boundaries of faith and hope.