Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

I will continue being Christian secure in the experienced reality and truth of ID as well as wanting all children to be taught the basics of good science, including Darwin.

I will continue to believe that there is nothing that is not worth knowing and that children benefit most from being taught all aspects of every subject along with encouragement to think and reason critically. If education does its job, unindoctrinated children invariably become those who contribute their own special gifts and knowledge adding to the sum total of what humans can know in the world. Indoctrinate them and they will not likely be capable of any original thought.

... When did anybody last have an "original thought"? I hope you don't think Foxy that you have had any of those. Perish the thought.

I'm really surprised that spendi doesn't know the difference between nuclear and chemical energy.

Cripes--

Are 300 million Yanks having original thoughts all day long?

Or is it just the A2Kers?

Cripes--

Are 300 million Yanks having original thoughts all day long?

Or is it just the A2Kers?

George-

Not a single solitary one I'm afraid. I can't even imagine what an "original thought" is.

Jesus had one I believe.

State Board of Education to vote on evolution - as a 'theory'
(Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, February 16, 2008)

A revised version of Florida's science standards will go to the State Board of Education on Tuesday, possibly calming the outcry over how evolution is to be taught in public schools.

The change would insert a single phrase -- "the scientific theory of" -- before the word evolution, as well as other topics, such as the big bang and plate tectonics, said Tom Butler, spokesman for the Florida Department of Education.

The new version will be presented as another option for the seven-member board to consider. It comes in response to "the input we've received from the public," Butler said.

The new standards would, for the first time, require teaching evolution to Florida's public-school students. The board is set to vote on the standards at its Tuesday meeting in Tallahassee.

Hundreds have attended public hearings on the new standards, and more than 10,000 logged on to the state Web site to post their views. Many were upset the state planned to teach evolution as the "fundamental concept underlying all of biology," and as a concept "supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence." They argued that other beliefs about how life on Earth started and developed should be taught, too.

The revisions do not change the basic descriptions of evolution, Butler said, but simply add the "scientific theory" phrase.

By adding the word theory, which many opponents of the standards had argued for, the new version may appease those who do not view evolution as a scientific fact or those whose religious beliefs are in conflict with evolution.

State Rep. Marti Coley, R-Marianna, said she had not heard about the change but thought it might appeal to her Panhandle constituents, who have been among the harshest critics of the new standards.

"All that we're asking is that they use the word theory," Coley said. "As long as they have the word theory to acknowledge that everything with it is not 100 percent proven, that would be good."

Some school boards in North Florida have passed resolutions opposing the standards and asking the state to make revisions.

State officials ran the new version by the scientists and science teachers who helped write them to ensure the wording remained "scientifically accurate," Butler said.

Those educators gave their approval to the new version, he added.

Paul Cottle, a physics professor at Florida State University, said he supports the new standards but understood the reasons behind the last-minute revisions.

"The goal is to make the standards more acceptable to a broader spectrum of the population," he said.

The Laws and Theories of Quantum Physics are composed entirely of original thoughts.

spendi is living proof that the embryo does not develop from the yolk.

spendius wrote:
If a nuclear reactor could provide the energy to keep itself fed with fuels and servicings wouldn't it be a perpetuum mobile.

There are breeder reactors, but they are not perpetual motion machines. No free (fish and chips) lunch.

spendius wrote:
Isn't a nuclear explosion merely a dramatic focussing of the energy from fossil fuels?

Nuclear energy is a different kettle of fish (and chips) than chemical energy.