Essay on Should Intelligent Design be Taught in Public.
Why not teach Intelligent Design in our schools? A passionate look at the controversy by Nick Strobel. Intelligent Design Resources. This document was written in October 2005 when my local high school board was considering requiring the teaching of Intelligent Design in the science classes as a way to get the young-earth Noah Flood geology creationism ideas into the school curriculum.
Is it fair that we are denying that intelligent design be taught as an alternative to evolution in our science classes? When a belief has no legitimate scientific backing, it is not science, but rather a philosophy, whereas biology is in fact science, which is why intelligent design does not belong in science classes in public schools.
No, Intelligent Design (ID) should not be taught in schools, at least not public ones. Intelligent Design is not scientific fact. It could be taught in a comparative religion class along with other.
Currently, evolutionary naturalism is the most widely taught view of origins in America. In schools in the modern day, only evolutionism is taught and condoned. But before the 1920s, only creationism was taught, and evolution was forbidden. Then, on February 20, 2008, the Florida State Board of Education voted to revise the public school.
Intelligent Design is Constitutional and has Educational and Legal Merit.. the only remaining hurdle to teach intelligent design is thus whether it can be taught under legitimate secular purpose.. “The Wisdom and Constitutionality of Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Schools,” 5 First Amendment Law Review 82, 85 (2006).
The Lakeland Ledger reports this week that a majority of Polk County school board members support supplementing public school evolution education with discussions of intelligent design. Polk County is home to more than half a million people, and thus an evolution education battle in the county could draw major media coverage.
The status of creation and evolution in public education has been the subject of substantial debate and conflict in legal, political, and religious circles. Globally, there is a wide variety of views on the topic. Most western countries have legislation that mandates only evolutionary biology is to be taught in the appropriate scientific syllabuses.