[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

[John Calvin]

I am opposed to teaching ID in schools.  Throughout history people
have stopped and said "It is this way because (the) God(s) willed it
so.  Then someone eventually comes along who says, no, there is this
chain of events, or that mechanism which causes said thing to be, and
this occurs without any divine intervention.

We continue to push the vail back, encounter another one and push it
back as well.  So far every time we stop and say god did it, we
eventually find new information that pushes gods involvement farther
and farther back.  We ought to finally learn this lesson and stop
saying that God did it.

Another issue, is that at various times even learned men have espoused
the belief that there was nothing more to be learned about the
universe, and that "Physics has explained all there is to know".  How
can we encourage children to enter the scientific fields if we are
teaching them that, this is the end of the line.  Sure we ought to
acknowledge any gaps in any of our knowledge, but rather than stop and
say "well, God must have done it", we ought to leap into the gaps
joyfully, breathless at the new adventures to be had.