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Intelligent Design or Darwinism

Posted on | September 28, 2005 |

Did a higher power create life or was it natural selection?

As many of you heard about a little school in PA that allows the teaching of Intelligent Design in the public high school there. This case is going to the state courts now. For the right reason- the Intelligent Desgin sounds too much like creationism to me. For those who don’t know the Intelligent Design theory is, in a nutshell, it is that life is too complicated that it had to be created from a higher power. To me a high power says God.

I am going to offer a compromise. We can’t deny that this country was built on god-fearing peoples. What the founding fathers I believe were trying to accomplish by separating church from state is to create a society unlike a Roman Emprorer socitey or run by the Pope. They believed in society where you can be free to practise any religion you feel is right for you. We also can’t deny that so much art is based on the Bible and the stories with in as well art based on other cultures of creationsism.

Why don’t they teach the stroy of creation along with other stories from other cultures in a Humantities type of class. When I was sophmore at Merrimack High School In New Hampshire, I learned these creation stories from a mythical stand point in my English class. Of course sophmore English in that school district was called Humanities. I did not just learn the Judeo-Christian story of creation but the Chinese, the Greco-Roman and many others. She taught it from the stand point of it being a myth.

I am sure many people agree that many of the stories in Bible could be taken as a myth. This way the information gets out there but does not invade the science classes. But don’t just teach the Judeo-Christian way but all religions and all cultures including ancient. This way the students can make a decision on their own.

We as society have a responsiblity to encourage free thought and opinions and many opinions should be expressed in all schools. Teach the stories of Intelligent Design in another class from another veiw point where the teacher does not endorse anything, but shows the students the myths that people believed in. And let Darwnisim or evolution taught in science class where it belongs.

There will never be a fix to this debate. And no matter how many compromises come up, no one will ever be happy. This topic will be debated forever. Because everyone wants to know why we are we here and how did we become here. As long as human live on this planet this topic will either scientific or religious. There is no right answer or wrong.

People on whole want to believe in something that makes sense to them. And that is why the creation stories were created and that is why Charles Darwin developed his theory of natural selection or evolution.

Have a good day.

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