RELIGION IN SCHOOL

WHAT IS INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND DO YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

Well I think intelligent design should be taught in public schools. The reason why I think it should be taught in public schools is because when you have faith in something you will stick to what you believe in. When they teach intelligent design in schools, they can tell you that you don’t have to believe in God but that intelligent design is a way of life that people and or some scientist figured out that there is a creator or one who had a plan for being on earth.

The idea that an organism’s complexity is evidence for the existence of a cosmic designer was advanced centuries before Charles Darwin was born. Its best-known exponent was English theologian William Paley, creator of the famous watchmaker analogy. If we find a pocket watch in a field, Paley wrote in 1802, we immediately infer that it was produced not by natural processes acting blindly but by a designing human intellect. Likewise, he reasoned, the natural world contains abundant evidence of a supernatural creator. The argument from design, as it is known, prevailed as an explanation of the natural world until the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859. The weight of the evidence that Darwin had patiently gathered swiftly convinced scientists that evolution by natural selection better explained life’s complexity and diversity. “I cannot possibly believe,” wrote Darwin in 1868, “that a false theory would explain so many classes of facts.”

If they can teach the theory of evolution, and it is still not a known fact that we were apes or monkeys and scientist are not sure that we were monkeys and etc… We should be able to learn about Intelligent Design because we as students need to be aware of what is going on and know our history about science.