[IP] "Intelligent Design" an excellent rebuttal by T. Sandefur
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From: Liz Ditz <ponytrax@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 13, 2004 1:15:27 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: "Intelligent Design" an excellent rebuttal by T. Sandefur
For IP if you wish:
Timothy Sandefur at The Panda's Thumb has a post on the Dover ID
controvery, including caselaw.
http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000612.html
But the Democrat/Republican analogy is deeply misleading. Evolution is
not like a political policy dispute, where there are pluses or minuses
to taking one view or another. Reasonable people can disagree over the
desirability, of, say, an earned-income tax credit versus a minimum
wage increase. But there is no similar dispute over the scientific
validity of evolution. Teaching “alternative theories” of the origin of
species to ensure fairness is just as valid as teaching children that
the earth might be flat or it might be round—or teaching them that the
earth might orbit the sun, or the sun might orbit the earth—out of
“fairness” to flat-earthers and geocentrists. Ms. Snyder concludes that
“Discussing the unanswered questions posed by Darwinism and intelligent
design and researching studies that explore those unanswered questions
is effective science instruction.” But it is just as effective as
teaching students the unanswered questions raised by astrology and the
users of divining rods.
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Liz Ditz
ponytrax@xxxxxxxxxx
blog: http://lizditz.typepad.com
Success: fall down seven times, stand up eight.
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