[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

[Mike Lorrey]

I'm opposed to teachers teaching anything they have not empirically
tested themselves. Anything else is dogmatic pabulum. I was once
hounded out of third grade class by a teacher for telling her she was
wrong to claim that seasons were caused by the Earth being closer or
further from the sun, rather than by the inclination of the Earth's
axis. Of course she was right, she was the teacher. I was just a
smart-ass. Her actions were no different than the Catholic Church's
dismissals of Galileo.

--- John Calvin <john.h.calvin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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