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Intelligent Design out of public schools
Public schools get there money from tax payers to be more specific. The majority of the people, being the taxpayers believe in Intelligent Design. With that said, from 1st to 12th grade, I actually graduated early, but I'm pretty sure we shouldn't have gone over it any more anyway. We only spent about 1 hour on Intelligent Design, and it was just a video, which basically disproved evolution point by point. (This was a few years ago, and the video was even older so, I'm not sure if the points still stand) But the point is that we don't spend enough time on it to make us any less educated on any thing else.
As for the standardized tests, In America, we teach everyone, the rich, the poor, the people that care, and the people that don't care. Which can't be said for some other countries. I don't see what math, engineering and other hard science fields have to do with teaching a little bit of intelligent design, in the same class as you learn about evolution. Learning more than one theory never hurts anyone.
Now to address your second, "less arguable point". I agree that this century will be one of trails for America and the world, But I don't think that studying evolution is going to help the nation. Learning about Biology, Chemistry, and studying Medicine, is what will make our standards of living better and what will create better technologies. Not studying a little bit more evolution instead of Intelligent Design. The next revolutionary technology, or revolutionary medicine, could just as easily come from someone who believes in Intelligent Design as opposed to evolution. I don't understand how believing that two amino acids fused together to form a unicellular organism,(or what ever the theory is, it changes from time to time so I don't try to keep up with it) would make someone a better doctor than someone that believes God put us on this earth. Both of the people will still understand the human body just the same.
I thought the YouTube video was pretty funny and quite fitting.
Intelligent Design out of public schools
I'm just going to reply to the original post, I'll probably address issues in other posts later on.
"...but in the public school science classroom, what should be taught are the facts, and the fact is that evolution is the most correct theory around."
Evolution is no where near perfect, there are many flaws in evolution. And scientists disprove evolution everyday. Saying that "Evolution is the most correct theory around." is just your opinion, it's an opinion shared by many people, But its still just an opinion. So I see no reason in just teaching one sides opinion. Whats wrong with teaching both? Other than evolution being much easier to disprove.
Another quote I would like to address is this one: "The female pelvis, having not been designed for both walking upright and giving birth, made childbirth the most dangerous for human females of all the mammals before modern medicine made up for the problem." Just to be sure that I'm not taking this out of contexts, here you were talking about the flaws in the human body saying that because of these flaws there couldn't be Intelligent Design.
I'm really not sure what you mean by it not being designed for walking up right, they seem to do that pretty well to me... And if your talking about not being able to walk upright, while being pregnant, that still doesn't disprove anything. As for not being designed for giving birth, Women can give birth with out the help of modern medicine, Its just painful, and according to Genesis 3:16 Its suppose to be. Genesis 3:16 "To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in child bearing; with pain you will give birth to children..." I don't think I really need to add any more to that.
In the rest of that paragraph you list lots of other flaws in the human body. You seem like a pretty smart guy, and you seem to know a lot about the human body, which I respect. But I have to say that these in no way disprove Intelligent Design. If our bodies weren't flawed then theoretically we could live forever. Which Intelligent Design doesn't want.
One last quote: "Evolution makes mistakes, it cannot create a perfect creature, and the fact that this is the case means it is working far more than an unseen God." What I have said above Pretty much already clears up how I feel about this, but I just wanted to pick at the end of this statement. "Means it is working far more than an unseen God." I'm assuming that your implying that evolution is the something that is "far more than an unseen God." But I'm having trouble figuring out why you think that just because something is flawed means that God didn't create it? Has it ever occurred to you that God could have set up processes to happen to create diversity, and with diversity some flaws?
With all this said, I would just like to say that I believe that this argument should be held with out bias to your opinion on Evolution vs. Intelligent Design. Because there is more than one belief and even if you think that evolution is fact, not every one does, and your opinion shouldn't be forced on people in public schools. The argument should be held as if Evolution and Intelligent Design are both equal theories.
And if you took out all your arguments that you based on "Evolution being Fact" then you wouldn't have any arguments on page that you created. Remember that you named this forum "Intelligent Design out of public schools" not "Evolution is fact and Intelligent Design is myth".
With that said, I think your are a very Intelligent person and I am looking forward to seeing a reply from you. But this time please make an argument about why it shouldn't be in public schools keeping in mind that both theories are illegitimate theories, even tho I disagree with evolution, and you disagree with Intelligent Design. That way I can reply to what the topic is about rather than about whether Evolution or Intelligent Design is fact or not.
