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I've got a couple of questions for everyone out there...

1) Do you believe that Darwinian Evolution teaches that life itself evolved
out of proteins (DNA & RNA are random sets of molecular structures that
eventually came about...), or that it teaches simply that once life was
established, it evolved?

2) Do you think biology teachers in public schools even teach the "origins
of life"?  Mine certainly didn't.  When asked, he would offer an opinion -
which he qualified as an OPINION.  As for evolution, yes that was taught as
the way life "advanced" (it was also taught poorly, but that's besides the
point).

To me, ID is fine as a philosophical construct.  Much like arguing why the
universe is so ordered.  There are multiple philosophical theories on that.
However, by and large SCIENCE stays away from that (I know of one scientist
published in Scientific American who says there are implications where it is
testable, but I have nto seen an elaboration on that).

Perhaps scientists should not be outraged by ID, but rather state the
obvious:  it is an interesting philosophical idea, that deserves to be
taught once we start teaching philosophy.  Now whether or not we should
teach philosophy should be left up to the individual school systems (right
now it is occasionally an elective course in high schools, and to the best
of my knowledge it is never mandated).


-William Katzman			[log in to unmask]
Director of Exhibits			(828) 322-8169 x307
Catawba Science Center		(828) 322-1585 (fax)
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value"
-A. Einstein

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