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Evolution Dominates Campaign in Pa. Town
by Mike the Usurper at 7:51 pm EDT, May 13, 2005

] Jones, a private tutor, said intelligent design is not
] really being "taught" in class. "They're reading a
] statement about it," she said.

I'm not sure there's actually anything to "teach" in intelligent design. The whole idea is "Gee, this is really complicated so someone had to do it, but we're not going to talk about who."

That's not science. Science is all about how things work. This is anti-science. "Intelligent Design" says this is too big for us to wrap our little brains around." That's not just stupid, it's un-American. When Superman gets brought up on "Truth, Justice, and the American Way," that American Way is hard work, honest effort and being smarter than the next guy who didn't work as hard or didn't put out the effort.

This makes us dumber, and condemns everyone under it to that.

RE: Evolution Dominates Campaign in Pa. Town
by Decius at 11:27 am EDT, May 14, 2005

Mike the Usurper wrote:
] That's not science. Science is all about how things work.
] This is anti-science. "Intelligent Design" says this is too
] big for us to wrap our little brains around."

I have always seen this in the opposite light. Science says you don't know anything to start with, and you only learn things through experimentation. What you can't prove through experimentation you don't know. Intelligent Design says we can know, or rather we're going to go ahead a make a favorite assumption about how things work.

I agree that teaching ID is going to produce stupid kids. Most people don't understand the difference between a law, a theory, and a hypothesis (which is one of the things the ID people are taking advantage of in making their arguements). If we institutionalize the teaching of a popular hypothesis we undermine the whole scientific method. We're going to produce kids who beleive that popularity is truth.