How about neither, that might make more people happy, at least stop a lot of contraversy and complaining. Why not admit theory as theory and not teach theory to young kids? In public schools up to the secondary level that is. In previous years I've had elementry school and highschool science teachers straight out state evolutionary theories as facts, if they were talking about the theory of ID then most those teachers would likely have been fired.
Say there was a law that made it so neither evolution or ID were taught in schools. The theists wouldn't complain about evolution being taught and the atheists wouldn't complain about ID being taught. The only thing they could complain about is not being able to teach their own theories in public schools. And if thats their complaint then oh well, i dont think the government has to care being as teaching theories in public schools isn't a right its more like a priviledge.
Or maybe the fact that ID is slowly starting to get accepted into school systems is better. That way kids are introduced to both of the two popular theories of our time, thus being more educational. And also evening out the playing field, encouraging the stating of theory as theory instead of fact.
Your thoughts?
It's not just atheists who are revolted at the thought of ID being taught in schools. Catholicism, being probably the largest Christian organization on the planet, has no problems in accepting the process of evolution as truth.
This was in last month's
Discover magazine:
"Theory
Most people use the word theory to mean uncertainty, guesswork, or a rough idea, but in science it has a different meaning. A scientific theory explains facts or phenomena that have been shown to be true by repeated independent tests and experiments. An educated guess in science is called a hypothesis.
Scientific theories are not laws, which describe phenomena thought to be invariable. Theories are generally used to describe why certain laws work. For example, the law of gravity is known to be true for falling bodies, but how and why it works is explained by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. Einstein's theory was accepted as true only after repeated experimentation and observation. Yet not even laws are absolute. They are rarely overturned, but they may be amended should new data warrant it."
--Maia Weinstock
The process of evolution is observable, the
theory is how it's explained.
Please reference
any peer-reviewed, published scientific reasoning that supports the philosophy of ID. You can't, because there isn't any. NONE. Keep your navel-gazing philosophy
OUT of science classrooms!!!
PS: Have you ever even read Darwin's
On The Origins Of Species?
If you haven't, you should. Darwin was, quite clearly, a devout christian.
