1. Fundamentalists wanting proof in the negative to validate their theory implies that Doubting Thomas got a bad rap.
2. It’s one thing to believe in God. It’s another to teach kids an invalid scientific method. Even God was a logical positivist: Eye for an eye, etc. Believe what you like, but leave The Method alone.
3. “Teach the controversy” implies that there is a controversy in biology. The only thing biologists do agree on is evolution. If you want to talk about the controversy, do it in political science class.
4. Disguising Christianity as philosophy is a kind of slur against philosophers. If you want your kids to take classes dedicated to Christianity, send them to Sunday School.
5. Just because something doesn’t make sense to you, doesn’t mean that God did it.
6. Why aren’t there intermediate species in the fossil record? There are. You can’t reject intermediate species because there are gaps between them. Cf. Zeno’s Paradox.
7. Just because no one (yet) knows how molecular motors evolved doesn’t mean God made them. The absence of an explanation doesn’t imply another explanation. (see item 1.) Intelligent Design could also explain how electricity works, except that Maxwell already figured out that it wasn’t God, but electrons. Just because there is no Maxwell, doesn’t mean there is a God.
8. If your real agenda is to teach religion in schools, what do you think your kids are learning by watching you lie about it?
just want you to know, as both a christian and as an electrical engineer (a “scientist” of sorts) and one who is totally opposed to the agenda of the religious right (incl. teaching ID in biology or any other science class as if had the status of science), that i like the sentiments portrayed here.
thanks for putting it here.
r b-j