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Originally Posted by Asmadai  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. |
There really is no place for religious studies in anything outside of high school, due to timetables more than anything, but frankly, Science class is the last class you'd ever want to introduce it in. Maybe a humanities. History or English? They already teach a fair amount of fiction (History in the form of theories about past figures lives).
But wasting time in Science when our society is already falling behind is a terrible idea. I'm sorry about your beliefs, but ID is crap. It has no factual basis in anything at all and is a completely fictional story. As said above, it'd be like teaching The Silmarillion in Science. Hey, it's a creationist story, it's about as believable. We're just the fourth age, after everyone has crossed the Sea. Then we'll end up like those useless as fuck cartographers in EQ who missed entire continents. Oh hey, there is a continent over here..oh wait..another one here too!