5/10/2005: Dinosaur tracks

[smoothmoniker]

ARRRRGHHHH!!!!!!!!

Ok, I've held out for as long as I can. Look, my evangelical conservative creds run as deep as anybody here, but pushing intelligent design into the science curriculum is wrong.

wrong, wrong, wrong.

Can I say it any plainer? This is why - the real question at stake here is Theism vs. Naturalism, and that's not a question for a science class, it's a question for a philosophy class. Science is a methodology for accumulating and correllating natural data; of course it starts with a presumption of naturalism. It has to! To say that science should present non-natural conclusions is like saying that 2+2=Orange. It's not that Orange is untrue, it's just that it's an inappropriate answer to the question.

Intelligent design is a schema for answering the why question - the scientific process answers the how question. So here's the compromise. Take creationism out of the science curriculum, but let the discussion of theism, and it's twin Intelligent Design, take place in the philosophy curriculum. It belongs there.

-sm