Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

spendius, we do enjoy our circus. However, unlike British soccer and /or Nascar, nobody dies.

Another look at intelligent design vs. evolution: In God's book, the Bible, he says we can know him by his creation. At least 80 percent of scientists now believe in intelligent design, and some don't even know the designer.
As one example, consider the honeybee. With observation hives, Karl Von Frish discovered bee communication.
One bee tells every other bee by different dances in the hive. A round dance is for a nectar source within 75 yards. Beyond 75 yards, she uses a wiggle-tail dance.
Different parts of this dance show exactly where and the quantity of the source. The guide is the infrared rays of the sun.
The bees' hexagonal comb is the best engineering design for strength and storage.
To survive the winter inside the hive, the bees form a ball with the queen in the center; and inside this ball of insulation, other bees flap their wings to create heat. The bees in the ball rotate in and out of the center.
Honeybees' intelligence is seemingly overwhelming when you consider that their brains consist only of several ganglia.
The bees are just a small part of nature where all parts are interlocked and depend on each other.
In his book, God says, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." For emphasis, God says this twice, in Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 53:1. So every time we see an article or letter extolling evolution, we can be sure who's talking.

Anybody interested in critiquing this letter to the editor?

Bill would ban intelligent design from science courses
(RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press, February 7, 2006)

MADISON, Wis. - Two Democratic lawmakers introduced a plan Tuesday that would ban public schools from teaching intelligent design as science, saying "pseudo-science" should have no place in the classroom.

The proposal is the first of its kind in the country, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and comes as a debate over how to teach the origins of human life rages in local school districts.

The bill's sponsor, Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, acknowledged the measure faced an uphill fight in a Legislature where Republicans control both houses.

The measure would force material included in science curriculums to describe only natural processes. The material also would need to follow the definitions of science adopted by the National Academy of Sciences.

Berceau said science education is under attack across the country as proponents of intelligent design push to have the theory taught as an alternative to evolution. The theory holds that the universe was created by a supreme being rather than natural selection promoted by Darwin's theory of evolution.

Critics say intelligent design is a thinly disguised promotion of religion that lacks any basis in science. A federal judge in Pennsylvania agreed in December in a landmark ruling striking down one school district's policy.

"Our children must be exposed to what science really is about and how the scientific enterprise functions, free of political or religious connotations," Berceau said at a news conference where she was flanked by Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, and University of Wisconsin-Madison professors. "It is designed to prevent the introduction of pseudo-science in the science classroom."

Under her plan, parents could file lawsuits if their children's science teachers went beyond the curriculum to teach non-science-based theories, she said. Berceau said philosophy or other courses could teach intelligent design or other religious-based theories.

Critics say intelligent design is a thinly disguised promotion of religion that lacks any basis in science.

hypothesis: a proposed explanation that can be verified, modified, or refuted

Thanks, spendius..............but I was hoping for a critique from rosborne or farmerman.

Monkeys,which other sciences say we are descendents of