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Should Intelligent Design be taught in schools?

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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has ruled that “Intelligent Design” is not science; and under the Lemon test has no place in the school curriculum. See Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al., Case No. 04cv2688. Our public schools are built and maintained at taxpayer expense to educate the people, and provide them with that knowledge necessary to be productive persons capable to fulfilling their civic responsibilities; which mandate governs the curriculum. In this regard, “Intelligent Design” is not a proper subject for public education, but rather religious instruction, which belongs in Bible school, not public school.
 
Do we need a one-size fits all school curriculum?

Shouldn't this question be answered by individual communities?

Based on the exact wording, I would vote yes in my community. ID should be discussed in school.

Should it be taught in science class? I would prefer my community limit science class to science related subjects only, so no.
 
tecoyah said:
I would not say you have made mistakes, ,.
Does not change a thing. The point is: reviewing the text talking about thermodynamics I have found and you agreed that the text has no clue about T-cs.. And it is not the only one article of such type.

tecoyah said:
but rather have limited the scope of the Law in question.

You are in a room, and I have a machine that meets all observation as a perpetual motion device, ... I built the device to use Earths rotaion as an energy source, ... on a Quantum level, .... Nothing is truly a closed system if we decide to look hard enough,.
I have already told you, there have been many attempts to make PMM and/or to provide a theoretical base for it, just calculating Entropy. They include PMMs working from energy of earth, sun etc., and just mathematical calculations and everything you can imagine. . Some of those calculations have been done by people whose knowledge well exceeds my rudimental knowledge of T-cs and math. As well a number of attempts have been made to disprove Einstein. I am not sure about Einstein, but in T-cs there is hardly a chance for you to be reviewed by peers. T-cs just walks away. It is a law of T-cs – don’t argue, just walk away. I am not joking- this is what the old man told me – we walk away.
It is like you would prove --- gravity laws are not valid because you don’t see them in outer space. Who would be arguing? T-cs just walks away. Any disprove of PMM would lead to invention of another PMM…. This is all the meaning of rejecting PMM without looking at it since 17**. T-cs is a quite unique science. Therefore ToE cannot be disproved, just by submitting PMM to T-cs. Who would be arguing? Fortunately for you all exact sciences confirm to T-cs. In Quantum mechanics the probability of PMM (decrease of En (S) in 2nd law meaning) is 50/50 which makes the existence of PMM =0 in indefinite number of tries. So, you may be sure nobody would be taking time to review your finding stating otherwise. T-cs does not depend on time when things happen. It is a universal law of the universe before your existence and after your existence in all places of the universe for all systems.

Your article represented the snowflake a as a complex system , I showed and you saw a snowflake was not more complex than liquid, and the more, gaseous state of the same matter – and now I am telling you: it is so throughout all Entropy (S) charts and tables, for all systems. And even from common sense point of view – you have a chance to draw a snowflake – but what is a chance for you to make a drawing of the vapor it turns into when it absorbs energy=heat?

Quote from an article which has no relation to ToE-ID fight:
One of the problems with studying the mechanisms and history of complex systems is the
lack of a working definition of complexity. …. Complexity depends on the observer.

99% of people looking at a snowflake would accept that it is a complex structure. 99% of real, not fake scientists would ask: in relation to what, what is the point you are looking at the snowflake from, what are your working definitions, what is your zero mark, what is grading of your tape measure, what are parameters you are accepting, what is the system of coordinates. Your definitions of scientific method are missing this part of science ( 0, system of coordinates, universal axioms, tape measure, parameters) in order to include ToE as a science.
So, your observations would be your personal impressions and your ability to convince other people that your personal impressions are common for them too.

Look at any living organism, and take yourself as an example. In order to exist you have to eat and drink – your consume calories, or chemicals to split them into calories, so all in all it is calories. Calories are a measure of heat/energy. Then WHATEVER YOU DO you're just burnimg calories; and then you sh/t the rest of calories out. Even when you think and have an idea, or experience emotions, - you observe chemical/electrical processes in your nervous system as a flow/transformation of energy provided by your food. Tell me what am I missing, what else you are doing besides taking energy, exchanging energy with surroundings, transforming energy in movements, thinking, ideas = chemical, electrical and mechanical forms of energy. You do nothing else. Not even a little thing is an exclusion. Then, as a prove that you are not a PMM, you die, sun makes you dry out, water makes you disintegrate, no food can revive you, you turn into a fossil. Therefore T’cs is a scientific way of describing you on the earth and in the universe. T-cs as well as other exact sciences has no emotions looking at you and does not differentiate you from a machine.

You are a machine, my friend. Law of thermodynamics had been known well before Darwin. Darwin started talking about all the machines with no attempt to apply the scientific method of the description of the machines. He had no axioms, no 0 point, and no tape measure. Just his own impressions. Which made him a genius. It never happened to any other science. Mendeleyev arranged chemicals in the table according to their atomic weights, so he used weights as a tape measure, not his own impressions, -- as well as definitions of atoms and other axioms and parameters of chemistry. Each science has a ‘’0”” point where it start. Math starts from + and – and it all can be taken apart down to + and -. “∫” is a sum. Geometry starts from a dot and a line. T-cs starts from P, T and V. Your science starts from nowhere, thus it also violates the 1st law of T-cswhich says nothing comes from nowhere and nothing goes nowhere, or, in another reading: E=MC^2, - even Einstein had to confirm to T-cs. In order to survive you first have to confirm to Thermodynamics; it does not matter whether you are an atheist or a believer , Darwin or Einstein – first of all and all in all you are a machine. And you are not a Perpetual Mobile.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/2_18.html
 
KCConservative said:
I think if you search out a link to this, you'll find that he supports the addition of ID to the curriculum, not as an "alternative."

doesnt matter. the only place ID has in the science classroom is as an example of a pseudo-science.
 
star2589 said:
doesnt matter. the only place ID has in the science classroom is as an example of a pseudo-science.
Who is clammoring for it to be in only a science classroom? jfuh argued that Bush wants ID taught instead of evolution. This is false.
 
KCConservative said:
Who is clammoring for it to be in only a science classroom? jfuh argued that Bush wants ID taught instead of evolution. This is false.

I've seen a few people suggest it be taught in a theology class, but they represent a small minority. and they were only suggesting it as a comprimise, they werent advocating that ID should be taught in school.
 
star2589 said:
I've seen a few people suggest it be taught in a theology class, but they represent a small minority. and they were only suggesting it as a comprimise, they werent advocating that ID should be taught in school.
Then you have missed the context in which jfuh and I were discussing the issue.
 
KCConservative said:
Then you have missed the context in which jfuh and I were discussing the issue.

I dont think I did. bush does indeed support ID being taught in addition to evolution, rathen than instead of evolution, but as long as we are talking about teaching it in a science classroom, thats completely irrelevant.

being exposed to multiple ideas is great, when all the ideas are valid. ID is a pseudo-science, and should not be taught as being an equally valid theory as evolution. scientifically, its not a valid theory at all.

the only place it has in a science class room is as an example of a pseudo-science, and bush was definatly not advocating that.
 
zymurgy said:
Do we need a one-size fits all school curriculum?

Shouldn't this question be answered by individual communities?

Based on the exact wording, I would vote yes in my community. ID should be discussed in school.

Should it be taught in science class? I would prefer my community limit science class to science related subjects only, so no.

Intelligent Design is a philosophy, it is an idea. It should be taught (not as fact) in a religion or philosophy class. If a public school does not have space or fund for such a class, than tough beans.


Duke
 
KCConservative said:
I think if you search out a link to this, you'll find that he supports the addition of ID to the curriculum, not as an "alternative."
And that shows bushie to be one of the most stupid and ignorant presidents ever, being utterly clueless about science, being so inanely stupid that he believes that science is based on faith and opinion rather than facts.

The guy is a moron, or at least comes across as one.
 
steen said:
And that shows bushie to be one of the most stupid and ignorant presidents ever, being utterly clueless about science, being so inanely stupid that he believes that science is based on faith and opinion rather than facts.

The guy is a moron, or at least comes across as one.
Bush? A moron? That's belittling the morons in this world. Bush isn't even up to par with morons.
I mean this is the guy that's getting daily "intelligence" briefings.
 
KCConservative said:
I doubt you actually believe that, nor do I. I was hoping you might answer the question with a degree of seriousness.
A serious answer from asking:
Oh, okay. Thank you, doctor.
Are you really that threatened by people of faith?
gimmie a break.
 
"Intelligent Design" has been ruled to be religious doctrine (viz. "Creationism") by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. See Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al., Case No. 04cv2688. If it had any philosophical merit, one might be able to suffer it; but it is superstitious nonsense, which has no place in public education.
 
With comments like: "Bush is a moron" and "Bush gets intelligence briefings" not withstanding...

jfuh said:
A serious answer from asking: gimmie a break.
Is it not a serious question? I'm curious why you keep avoiding it. Here it is again: Why are you so threatened by people of faith? What about this question makes you respond with "gimmie a break", rather than with a sensible answer? Keeping in mind how often you complain about flaming, I trust you'll respond without any.
 
KCConservative said:
With comments like: "Bush is a moron" and "Bush gets intelligence briefings" not withstanding...

Is it not a serious question? I'm curious why you keep avoiding it. Here it is again: Why are you so threatened by people of faith? What about this question makes you respond with "gimmie a break", rather than with a sensible answer? Keeping in mind how often you complain about flaming, I trust you'll respond without any.

Ever open a history book? Why are you not threatened by people "of faith"?
 
zymurgy said:
Ever open a history book? Why are you not threatened by people "of faith"?
First of all, the question, as you know, was for jfu. But given his avoidance, I'll answer your "question to my question." :roll:

People of faith give me no reason to feel threatened. Just as people who deny faith give me no reason to feel threatened.

Inverting the original question and throwing it back on the person who asked it might seem clever to you, but it doesn't work with me. That said, maybe I will wait for jfuh. Thanks, pal.

Oh, and since my minor was American History, I'll just pretend you didn;t ask the first silly question.
 
KCConservative said:
First of all, the question, as you know, was for jfu. But given his avoidance, I'll answer your "question to my question." :roll:

People of faith give me no reason to feel threatened. Just as people who deny faith give me no reason to feel threatened.

Inverting the original question and throwing it back on the person who asked it might seem clever to you, but it doesn't work with me. That said, maybe I will wait for jfuh. Thanks, pal.

Oh, and since my minor was American History, I'll just pretend you didn;t ask the first silly question.

lame.

Don't worry. This will be my last direct dialogue with you.
 
zymurgy said:
Don't worry. This will be my last direct dialogue with you.
I understand. Oh, and welcome to the forum. :2wave:
 
KCConservative said:
With comments like: "Bush is a moron" and "Bush gets intelligence briefings" not withstanding...
Well, he IS a moron when he wants ID taught in connection with science.
 
steen said:
Well, he IS a moron when he wants ID taught in connection with science.

or perhaps he's just as well educated in science as the average american. thats the problem with giving all the power to the board to make curriculum decisions. viscious cycle really. uneducated americans demand that the schools teach something, and the schools have to do it.
 
star2589 said:
or perhaps he's just as well educated in science as the average american. thats the problem with giving all the power to the board to make curriculum decisions. viscious cycle really. uneducated americans demand that the schools teach something, and the schools have to do it.

Well, in President Bush's defense, he did say ID should be taught, but after that, in the State of the Union, he said that we need to improve the education of students in math and science to be more competitive with other countries. So, he must have abandoned the ID thing, right? Must have realized it is a distraction? Because it can only retard and confuse education in the sciences, and makes us more competitive nowhere.

There are some colleges in California that are refusing admission to students from some private religious prep schools. The reason is because these schools minimized instruction in evolution and taught ID. Sure made those students more competitive, didn't it?

There is a lawsuit to force admission of these students.
 
tryreading said:
Well, in President Bush's defense, he did say ID should be taught, but after that, in the State of the Union, he said that we need to improve the education of students in math and science to be more competitive with other countries. So, he must have abandoned the ID thing, right? Must have realized it is a distraction? Because it can only retard and confuse education in the sciences, and makes us more competitive nowhere.

I think he's smart enough to know that science and math are good things, but he has no idea what science and math actually are. I dont think he's abandoned the ID thing at all.
 
star2589 said:
I think he's smart enough to know that science and math are good things, but he has no idea what science and math actually are. I dont think he's abandoned the ID thing at all.
Neither do I. I see it as strictlt political. Rove told him that the fundies want ID, so he came out in favor of it. Like Santorum in PA, where the ID lawsuit was filed. But Santorum suddenly realized how much of an idiot he was in this area, so he backpedaled. SO now the educated people knows that he is a moron, and the fundies see him as a traitor. Not a smart move.

It also means that bushie boy is NOT able to back-pedal on this, or he get the fundies on his case. SO I agree that he has not abandoned it.
 
steen said:
Neither do I. I see it as strictlt political. Rove told him that the fundies want ID, so he came out in favor of it. Like Santorum in PA, where the ID lawsuit was filed. But Santorum suddenly realized how much of an idiot he was in this area, so he backpedaled. SO now the educated people knows that he is a moron, and the fundies see him as a traitor. Not a smart move.

It also means that bushie boy is NOT able to back-pedal on this, or he get the fundies on his case. SO I agree that he has not abandoned it.

I was being sarcastic about the abandonment, but didn't make it clear in my post.

Its too bad that so much important time in local governments in this country has been spent promoting ID. And also, the religious people who work night and day to have it taught could surely find something more constructive to do in this country. "Faith, Hope and Charity...the greatest of these is Charity." The greatest is not usurping public school systems to their ends.
 
star2589 said:
I think he's smart enough to know that science and math are good things, but he has no idea what science and math actually are.
Could you either provide a source for this startling revelation or admit that it is only your partisan opinion? Either way, just so we're clear. Thanks.
 
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