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I ran into an amazing statement by an ID guy from the Discovery Institute on the ASA list. I then looked it up and it is true.
MARK RYLAND (DI): "... The Discovery Institute never set out to have a school board, schools, get into this issue. We've never encouraged people to do it, we've never promoted it. We have, unfortunately, gotten sucked into it, because we have a lot of expertise in the issue, that people are interested in.
When asked for our opinion, we always tell people: don't teach intelligent design. There's no curriculum developed for it, you're teachers are likely to be hostile towards it, I mean there's just all these good reasons why you should not to go down that path. If you want to do anything, you should teach the evidence for and against Darwin's theory. Teach it dialectically. http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/ne..._10_23_2005.asp
I am absolutely struck by the statement and what it says about ID. They claim they have a science, yet they haven't promoted it, haven't developed a curriculum for it and want people to avoid teaching it. I have never met a science with those characteristics. Indeed, most scientists WANT to tell others about their science because they find it interesting. But apparently DI wants to keep their science under that proverbial bushel basket.
Scientists throughout history have taken stands for their theories in spite of the hositility of the teachers and fellow scientists, but DI seems to think that teacher hostility is a reason not to stand for their views.
MARK RYLAND (DI): "... The Discovery Institute never set out to have a school board, schools, get into this issue. We've never encouraged people to do it, we've never promoted it. We have, unfortunately, gotten sucked into it, because we have a lot of expertise in the issue, that people are interested in.
When asked for our opinion, we always tell people: don't teach intelligent design. There's no curriculum developed for it, you're teachers are likely to be hostile towards it, I mean there's just all these good reasons why you should not to go down that path. If you want to do anything, you should teach the evidence for and against Darwin's theory. Teach it dialectically. http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/ne..._10_23_2005.asp
I am absolutely struck by the statement and what it says about ID. They claim they have a science, yet they haven't promoted it, haven't developed a curriculum for it and want people to avoid teaching it. I have never met a science with those characteristics. Indeed, most scientists WANT to tell others about their science because they find it interesting. But apparently DI wants to keep their science under that proverbial bushel basket.
Scientists throughout history have taken stands for their theories in spite of the hositility of the teachers and fellow scientists, but DI seems to think that teacher hostility is a reason not to stand for their views.
