God is Gooder than Science in Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan. (Nov. 
– Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.The 6-4 vote was a victory for “intelligent design” advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.Critics of the new language charged that it was an attempt to inject God and creationism into public schools in violation of the separation of church and state.
I had two debates on Monday a private Christian school in Connecticut on the subject of Intelligent Design. Their thought and arguments were the standard stuff, and I combatted with the standard stuff….Until the children started asking questions. “What exactly IS evolution?” “Did we really evolve from monkeys”? “Evolution is foreign to me — how does it work?” I realized that these kids, who were SUPPOSED to “hear both sides and make a choice”, weren’t hearing one side at all. These seniors knew less about standard scientific theory than my 8-year-old daughter, which IMO is sure to give them a disadvantage in college.HERE’S SOME GOOD NEWS: Dover ID’ers booted out by smart citizens!http://thequestionableauthority.blogspot.com/2005/11/clean-sweep-in-dover.html
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The best argument against Intelligent Design that I can think of is to look at a case of actual intelligent design — i.e., at a particular thing that was designed by human intelligence. Take the case of the automobile. Clearly, a Ford automobile built in the early years of the twentieth century bears the imprint of intelligent design. But so does a Ford authomobile built in 2007. And yet the two automobiles are distinctly different, and the reason for this is that intelligent design itself is operative only within the larger context of evolving intelligence. Intelligent design in no way connotes Perfect Design, and so even though a thing might show characteristics suggestive of an intelligent creator, the presence of a single flaw or imperfection in an object, no matter how cleverly it appears to be designed, shows that the creator cannot possibly be “God,” as god is by definition perfect. Hence, flat feet and slipped disks in the human skeletal system show conclusively that the design can be improved upon. Only a forward-reaching evolutionary process could possibly accomplish that. So whether a system is designed by an intelligence or whether it evolves through a series of chance adaptations to changing environments, there can be no “god” in either case, for in order for intelligent design to apply, it HAS to be subject to evolutionary processes.
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