[Dimensio]

Whether intelligent design or a similar critique should be taught in public schools: "I think people should be taught ... that there are various theories about how man was created."

I wonder what these alleged "theories" are, and whether or not they're really scientific theories.

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"Whether intelligent design or a similar critique should be taught in public schools: "I think people should be taught ... that there are various theories about how man was created.""

"I wonder what these alleged "theories" are, and whether or not they're really scientific theories."

I'm more concerned with the focus on "how man was created". It indicates that people are still primarily concerned with the separation between them and the other animals. I have no understanding of why this would be so, but as long as people find it difficult to look at themselves as nothing more than some very intelligent animals, they will look for some verification of their "special" place in the universe. This may also be why the connection between abiogenesis and evolution will just not go away, both indicate a rather plain start to the human animal.