When the Boston Globe runs an editorial saying “Intelligent Design Should Be Taught Alongside Evolution in Schools,” it’s cry for help from the Globe Editors. They need essays, people! And they’ll take any point of view, no matter how discredited.
The challenge is before us all. As readers of the Globe, we should be writers for the Globe. It is time for us to add our voices to the marketplace of ideas, along with the pseudo-intellectuals of the Discovery Institute, to demand our schools expose our children to important ideas that just aren’t politically correct, such as the Flat Earth Theory, the South-Won-The-Civil-War Paradigm, and the Eddie-Murphy-Is-Ronald-Reagan’s-Illegitimate-Son Hypothesis.
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…the Glob would publish an op-ed from the Disco Institute (as PZMyers calls it), but I’m not really surprised. The Glob need to fill up the pages of its fish wrapping and birdcage liner with something. They’ve fired many of their more intelligent columnists (for some reason, they kept the idiot Jacoby on), and the Disco Institute probably offered up its product for free.
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The Glob has deteriorated so rapidly since the NYTimes Company bought them, that I’m surprised that anyone still pays money for it. As far as I can tell, the NYTimes has deteriorated at about the same rate.
And the guy makes some good points. Hurray for freedom of speech and respect for a variety of viewpoints. Go Globe!
Teaching ID in science class in public schools? That’s preposterous.
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ID isn’t science. Its proponents have produced no theories. ID makes no predictions that can be tested or examined.
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Writings of its popular proponents–published in the popular press, not in peer-reviewed journals–have been skewered up and down by people who actually understand the science. Michael Behe’s latest book being only one example.
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ID is merely William Paley’s watchmaker analogy warmed over. It is nothing more than religion. Teach it in a comparative religion class–difficult to have in public schools–but not in science class.
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One last point, teachers in k-12 public schools do not have freedom of speech while they are teaching. They are agents of the state and their freedom of speech is limited by constitutional strictures. In this case limitations on the entanglement of religion and government. That was the whole point of the Kitzmiller case.
an op-ed piece extolling the need for schools to teach the stork-and-cabbage-leaf theory of human of reproduction. You know, schools will refuse to hire health teachers who have advanced about that theory. No respect for other ideas at all!
Would you want students’ knowledge of “creation science” — and possibly Uranus and Gaea’s copulation, and other “theories” — to be measured on the MCAS?
just on the drivers exam!