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Intelligent Design, and Happy Holidays
December 28, 2005
Technical and scientific education has been a recurring theme in this blog, and the biggest recent news on that front has been the decision by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III forbidding the schools of Dover, Pa., to tout intelligent design in science classes.
Now first, let me say that I don't believe that belief in intelligent design precludes one from being an effective engineer or scientist. However, I do believe that forcing intelligent design into science curricula sends the wrong message to the youngsters to whom we will be looking to raise us from the technical illiteracy that now pervades American society.
But there is no need for intelligent-design proponents to be discouraged by the ruling. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson puts it best, in a column titled "
A Design That's Anti-Faith (December 23, 2005, p. A21):
"Can you imagine a more faithless pursuit than trying to prove the existence of God? Yet that is what the whole 'intelligent design' movement is really about, and it seems to me that people of faith should rejoice at the federal court decision…. The eloquent ruling…is a Christmastime blessing."
Posted by Rick Nelson on December 28, 2005 | Comments (0)
