"Intelligent Design" an excellent rebuttal by T. Sandefur

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Liz Ditz <ponytrax () batnet com>
Date: November 13, 2004 1:15:27 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
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 () batnet com

blog: http://lizditz.typepad.com

Success: fall down seven times, stand up eight. 

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