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MaineWriter:
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--- Quote ---Leslie, you obviously understand what "intelligent design" means. Please, would you be willing to explain it?
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I'll give you this from Wikipedia:
Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."[1] Its leading proponents, all of whom are affiliated with the Discovery Institute[2], say that intelligent design is a scientific theory that stands on equal footing with, or is superior to, current scientific theories regarding the origin of life.[3]
An overwhelming majority[4] of the scientific community views intelligent design not as a valid scientific theory but as pseudoscience[5] or junk science.[6] The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that intelligent design "and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions and propose no new hypotheses of their own.[7]
A United States federal court recently ruled that a public school district requirement for science classes to teach that intelligent design is an alternative to evolution was a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005), United States District Judge John E. Jones III also ruled that intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design
FuzzyChanny:
Thank you :)
opinionista:
Since I didn't know what it meant I googled it. Here it is. I doubt it's thought here in Roman Catholic Spain, but I'll ask my friends. I live here but I'm not from here.
http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/
Becky:
As you can probably guess from mine and Chan's replies it is not taught in either UK or South African schools. And it definitely wasn't in my mum's day cause I asked her what it was and she didn't have a clue. But from what Leslie has described it as I think it sounds a rather stupid idea in the first place.
dmmb_Mandy:
Here in Newfoundland & Labrador it's not taught. I dunno about the rest of Canada though.
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