Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

There is an excellent editorial by Michael Balter, who writes for Science at his website, and an excellent debate about it at Dean's World.

I won't elaborate in detail here, because the debate in the Dean's World Comments pretty much covers everything that I would say.

The gist of it, however, is that the adamant insistence that Intelligent Design be left out of classrooms altogether may well do more harm than good to the proponents of evolutionary theory, by bypassing the actual scientific process by which the theory was developed.

My take has been for a long time that I agree with Intelligent Design, but that it isn't science. That said, the way Evolution is often taught these days isn't science either. It is dogmatic "facts" presented as though science requires unquestioning blind belief in whatever your teacher tells you.

Anyway, check out the comments. Great stuff.

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