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Originally Posted by Millie  I don't oppose the teaching of Intelligent Design if it's presented as what it really is: religion. It is not science and should not be passed off as science in the science classroom. If we want to teach ID to kids, we should teach it as religion, or failing that, as philosophy. It's not a scientific theory; it's a belief system with no basis whatsoever in scientific methodology or principles of rational inquiry.
Science is not a religion, and religion is not a science. The sooner everyone agrees to keep the two in separate buckets, the better off everyone will be. |
So have teachers in the science classrooms say "It's not a scientific theory; it's a belief system with no basis whatsoever in scientific methodology or principles of rational inquiry." after the lecture on Intelligent Design. Problem solved.
I only say this, as the Science class seems to be the only real fitting place in the current curriculum of elementary/middle/high school classes to actually introduce the theory in (given it already is discussing 'how the earth was created' and what not). Maybe the public schools in your area currently have religion/philosophy classes that the presentation of said theory would be more fitting in, but here in the Bible Belt our public schools (ironically) don't.