The good citizens of Dover, PA have flipped their entire school board. Why? If you haven't heard, the previous school board was forcing 9th grade science students to learn about Intelligent Design as an alternative to Evolution.
I don't have a problem with Intelligent Design, I may even agree with it at some level. I just don't think it should be offered as an alternative to real scientific theory. Let me explain.
I studied science in college, Biology in fact. Yes, I learned about evolution, and I have read The Origin of Species a couple of times. I believe in natural selection and evolution just as much as I believe the sun will rise tomorrow. It just makes sense to me.
To go even further, I believe that ultimately all species on the planet evolved from a single organism. I even think that the first single-celled organism may have been formed by accident. Scientists have recreated the environment of primordial earth in a lab and have successfully created organic molecules from non-organic substances. Non-organic to organic is a smaller leap than organic molecules to organisms.
I believe in everything that science has to offer on this subject, all the way back to the big bang. That's where I think Intelligent Design comes in. Science can't explain, and I can't imagine, what existed before the big bang, before existence itself. To me, the only logical explanation is a supreme being of some type who set it all in motion, but we will never find evidence of that.
To sum it up, I believe in Evolution and Intelligent Design. Some supreme being out there created the processes of evolution and natural selection, and just let it work. They aren't exclusive, they compliment each other.
But that's not how it's being taught. The school board in Dover, PA wanted to offer a theory based on “faith” as an alternative to one based on evidence and fact, in a public school science class no less. If they wanted to introduce that idea in a comparative religion class, that's fine. But please, don't dismiss the facts, that's what science is all about.
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