The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer - any challenges?

[malignd at aol.com]

<<And no one should have any concern whatsoever for the teaching of 
"Intelligent Design" in the classroom side by side with the theory of 
evolution. It's the best thing that could happen.

Children are not fooled easily. If the theory of evolution has any 
merit at all, it can only be strengthened by the comparison.>>

Even if this were true--and I don't think it is--there's still the 
argument that bad pseudo-science should not be taught to anyone, 
certainly not in a school paid for by taxes, which is an argument I 
find easy to agree with.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rcfchess at aol.com
To: jp3214 at earthlink.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:11:55 EDT
Subject: Re: The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer - any challenges?

           I disagree. Children can be VERY easily fooled, especially 
when they're browbeaten by their parents, forced to go to church, say 
prayers at the dinner table...ever see the movie American History X?! 
The indoctrination/brainwashing reinforcement is just going to lead to 
fights between kids defending one "truth" against another. I wouldn't 
be surprised if it results in bloodshed eventually, a modern mini-holy 
war. There are reasons for separation of church and state, as 
originally intended by our forefathers. God knows (!)(sorry, couldn't 
resist) why apparently no one's tried suing the US gov't (or state? or 
local?) for flaunting that principle; but maybe the disappearance 
(i.e., murder) of Madeleine Murray O'Hare had something to do with 
influencing people not to fight such hypocrisy...?!
      Anyone on the list know if there have been any challenges to the 
creationists' teachings in schools on those grounds? And what the 
results (if any) were?
  
 RF
  
  In a message dated 09/26/2005 11:56:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
jp3214 at earthlink.net writes:
 On Sep 26, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Humberto Torofuerte wrote:

> Looks like it's on in PA...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ar377
>
>

And no one should have any concern whatsoever for the
teaching of "Intelligent Design" in the classroom side by
side with the theory of evolution. It's the best thing that could
happen.

Children are not fooled easily. If the theory of evolution has
any merit at all, it can only be strengthened by the comparison.
This represents a real opportunity for a stimulating thought
producing consideration of reality, which has been sadly
missing from public education. It also marks a very real
admission that evolution is valid by the creationists.