Intelligent Design Seeks a Place in Utah Schools - ("creationism" not same as "intel. design")

CHRISTIAN POST.COM ^ | JUNE 6, 2005 | Susan Wang

[snarks_when_bored]

As Rocky was wont to ask Bullwinkle:  "Again?"

[narby]

Unlike creationism, divine design simply acknowledges that the world is so complex, its development must have been guided by some higher power.

Sounds good to me. The only problem is that there's no proof that God exists. So this isn't science, and shouldn't be taught as such.

It belongs in philosophy class.

[LauraleeBraswell]

What you don't want, is a teacher evangelizing a specific religion over the other. Intelligent design points out the complex patterns of the universe and the symmetry. Sort of like a Mysteries of the Universe class. And that's Scientific. This is not unconstitutional nor is it wrong.

[Vaquero]

[pby]

Too late...Public school "science" classes already dove into the realm of philosophy when they taught evolutionary theory as purely naturalistic and completely Godless.

And the creation itself is "proof" that God exists.

[frankenMonkey]

"divine design"
huh? i thought this was supposed to be intelligent design? you know, scientifically based...

[RadioAstronomer]

Intelligent design points out the complex patterns of the universe and the symmetry

If this is true, so does tarot cards and crystal balls.

[RadioAstronomer]

I like that. Where can I buy one! :-)

[dread78645]

JosephSmithDidit ping

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

In January, a federal judge ordered the stickers to be removed.

So were the signers of our Constitution creationists or darwinists?

[Strategerist]

Well, none of the signers of the Constitution believed in Relativity or Quantum Mechanics either.

[LauraleeBraswell]

ME: Intelligent design points out the complex patterns of the universe and the symmetry

YOU: If this is true, so does tarot cards and crystal balls.


How so? I don't see how studying nature's symmetry has anything to do with crystal balls.

[narby]

Intelligent design points out the complex patterns of the universe and the symmetry.

Intelligent design says that a higher being made the universe. That's a nice, feel good thought. And I think it's true too. But there's simply no evidence of it. You have to believe in God by faith. Not because your science teacher said so.

[pby]

The problem exists because science teachers are specifically stating, via their definition of evolution (pure natural process without any supernatural), that God was not the Creator..."But there's simply no evidence" that the universe and everything in it simply evolved by chance and pure natural processes. Evolutionists accept this belief by faith and they want students to do that as well just "because your science teacher said so".

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 280 names. See the list's description at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[pby]

The reality is...that you have no evidence for vertical evolution in the fossil record nor in current day observation...for evolutionists that "reality bites".

[shuckmaster]

Unlike creationism, divine design simply acknowledges that the world is so complex, its development must have been guided by some higher power. Proponents do not specify who that higher power is.

And they think they can fool somebody with that?

[AntiGuv]

reality bites!

[shuckmaster]

awesome graphic!