Guy-jin
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At risk of repeating what JA's said:
I do have a problem with "Intelligent Design" and creationism being taught as scientific theories because they aren't theories. Theories utilize facts to draw conclusions. Both Intelligent Design and creationism fundamentally use something non-factual--that there is a God--as the crux of their descriptions.
Moreover, a very strict requirement of a theory is that it's something that can be refuted if certain properties are met. For example, if you see a housecat spontaneously evolve into a lion, you've just disproved Darwin's Theory of Evolution. However, "Intelligent Design" and creationism aren't refutable because, if you accept God as fact, there's no way to prove they aren't real. If you see your housecat spontaneously evolve into a lion, "Intelligent Design" says there was some kind of divine purposeful force behind it.
Anyway, to me these issues always lead back to religious legislature trying to infuse the Christian God as fact into schools. The moment you allow "Intelligent Design" and creationism to be taught in school as scientific theories, you must then permit that the Christian God is fact. That's the actual goal here and why it can't be allowed to happen in America.
I do have a problem with "Intelligent Design" and creationism being taught as scientific theories because they aren't theories. Theories utilize facts to draw conclusions. Both Intelligent Design and creationism fundamentally use something non-factual--that there is a God--as the crux of their descriptions.
Moreover, a very strict requirement of a theory is that it's something that can be refuted if certain properties are met. For example, if you see a housecat spontaneously evolve into a lion, you've just disproved Darwin's Theory of Evolution. However, "Intelligent Design" and creationism aren't refutable because, if you accept God as fact, there's no way to prove they aren't real. If you see your housecat spontaneously evolve into a lion, "Intelligent Design" says there was some kind of divine purposeful force behind it.
Anyway, to me these issues always lead back to religious legislature trying to infuse the Christian God as fact into schools. The moment you allow "Intelligent Design" and creationism to be taught in school as scientific theories, you must then permit that the Christian God is fact. That's the actual goal here and why it can't be allowed to happen in America.