From: Bertvan@aol.com <Bertvan@aol.com>
>I urge Darwinists not to read the following article. It would surely be
>detremental to their mental health. I offer it for the enjoyment of any
>lurkers, skeptical of Darwinism, who might enjoy a particularly articulate
>explanationof what ID is about, and an expression of the goals of some of
>those considering ID.
>
>http://www.eppc.org/library/conversations/04-evolutioncurriculum.html
Thanks for the warning, Bertvan, but I read it anyway. And it was indeed bad
for my health, but physical not mental. It seriously raised my blood
pressure. ;-)
Reading about the goals of the ID movement is important, and I would
certainly encourage anyone to do so, but being careful to read between the
lines. However, the mythical "lurkers" (for whose enlightenment Bertvan and
Stephen Jones are so concerned) will find nothing on that web page to
support the scientific claims of ID.
The seminar reported on that page seems like a cosy little discussion
between people who are largely in agreement. Most of them appear to be
journalists, with no mention of them having any scientific expertise. And
most of them seem to take it for granted that there is some scientific merit
in the ID arguments. In this respect, it seems that the ID propaganda is
working.
I've just been debating in talk.origins with yet another two ID proponents
who were completely close to reasoned argument. This seems to be a
characteristic of most ID proponents, which seems like another good reason
(if another one were needed) for not teaching ID in schools. The ID
proponents' demand for an "open" discussion in schools rings rather hollow
to those of us who've seen how closed-minded they themselves are.
Teaching their kind of irrationality as science would be disastrous for
science education. It would undermine the respect of students for science
and for their teachers, once they saw through the ID smokescreen.
Richard Wein (Tich)
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