Posted on 06/17/2011 5:37:57 PM PDT by ejdrapes
Bachmann: Schools should teach intelligent design New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann explained her skepticism of evolution on Friday and said students should be taught the theory of intelligent design. Bachmann, a congresswoman from Minnesota, also proposed a major overhaul of the nation’s education system and said state administrators should be able to decide how they spend money allocated to them by the federal government. "I support intelligent design," Bachmann told reporters in New Orleans following her speech to the Republican Leadership Conference. "What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide. I don't think it's a good idea for government to come down on one side of scientific issue or another, when there is reasonable doubt on both sides."
By CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby
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It seems to me that if anyone thinks all modern species arose within the last few thousand years from a few “kinds” that could fit on a boat- they believe in “evolution” and “speciation” on a scale much greater than any evolutionary biologist proposes.
They just don't think “common descent of species” goes on as far.
What mechanism are you going to teach to explain the arising of antibiotic resistance, differences among human populations, selective breeding of dogs and the variations we have derived from a small population of wolves, etc, etc?
Would you care to prove that to be the case? What are you going to use for methodology?
Bwhahaha! Don’t make me laugh. I think you got that religion about the time you knew Bachmann was entering the race. ROTFL
Declaration: It is now okay to attack. The difference FRiend is that I never attacked. I challenged record, positions, and electibility. It was never personal, unlike what Bachmann is getting by fellow conservatives here.
Logic is also a metaphysical construct and the scientific method is premised on logical inference.
Huh? Intelligent design is independent of a specific religion and just acknowledges a creator and evidence of design. It is about as centrist as you can get. I haven't seen evidence of Bachmann being further to the right of Palin or West. I look at Bachmann, Palin and West all being cut out of the same cloth. (Neither Palin nor West are running BTW)
We were taught what intelligent design was and we definitely discussed it in high school Biology. I don’t remember anyone ever having an issue with it, nor any of the parents. We also learned what Creationism and evolution was. This in NY, late 80’s. Nobody had a problem with that. We also knew what the scientific method was and that there are different opinions out there. I don’t really see what the big deal is in discussing different theories, and each is a theory until proved fact. When faith and evolution are discussed, people will disagree on what is fact and what is theory based on their beliefs. To me that doesn’t mean these things can’t be discussed side by side. In fact, that’s the only way some people will be introduced to ideas different from their own. I have always told my children they are entitled to their own ideas and beliefs and to learn as much as they can because you better be able to back up those points of view!
Some day every last soul is going to get to have their meet and greet with the Creator of that said soul. There will be NO scientific methodology that redeems any soul. At the very core of the scientific methodology is ‘survival of the fittest’ thus government is needed to ‘save’ the less fit flesh... LIBERALISM in it’s simplest form.
That's the whole point all methods used to prove rest on arbitrary starting points which themselves cannot be proved.
You man Science as in
Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.[1] To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning
or do you mean "Science" as in mindlessly reciting as fact anything the Education Establishment screams at you to believe?
She’s right — schools should teach intelligent design. She shouldn’t be bashed when she is promoting things.
Federal, State, and Local Government officials should be prohibited from taking money from citizens for the purported purpose of education. Single Payer has never worked, doesn't work, will never work. It doesn't work in education, it won't work for healthcare.
Parents must pay directly for their children's education.
Fathers must raise their children.
As as much science as the failed theory of evolution is, which contradicts both the fossil and genetic records.
Thank God for a candidate standing up for what the people want. Any Republican that can't do is unfit for office.
IOW, you don't know a damned thing for sure, and have figured out a way to never have to.
But that is an arbitrary definition which assumes that all of reality can (and must) be empirically quantified - an assumption which can be proved using this very definition of science.
Change over a long period of time, hundreds of millions of years is the evidence that supports geological, paleontological and evolutionary theories. I have never heard the I.D. crowd promoting anything but a young earth where everything has come and gone in the past 10,000 years.
Are you suggesting she believes the earth is more than 4 billion years old? And, that dinosaurs lived hundreds of millions of years ago? Or, do you think she believes in a young earth that is about 10,000 years old where creatures spontaneously appear and disappear without any genetic connection through evolution?
can= cannot (typo)
So philosophy should not be taught in school?
I enjoyed your “FR is not the place for bashing Republicans (unless it’s Sarah Palin)” spiel on the previous thread.
Talk about hypocrisy!
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It’s almost funny how transparently hypocritical they are.
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