Intelligent Design trying new tactics that just may make headway
Intelligent Design cannot currently be taught in public schools thanks to the well publicized Dover trial. Moreover, it’s very unlikely this decision could be successfully challenged in the near future. So now Intelligent Design advocates are looking in new directions and trying new tactics to get their message out to young people.
1. Sow seeds of doubt regarding evolution at the high school level. Since high schools are required to teach evolution, but are prohibited from proseletyzing for Christianity, Intelligent Design advocates have instead decided to simply instill doubts regarding evolution in the minds of impressionable high school students. The idea is to push school boards to adopt science books that teach the problems with the Theory of Evolution - even if those problems are unfounded or discredited.
2. Misleadingly use terms such as “academic freedom” to encourage the teaching of “alternative theories” at the college level. I’ve already written about Ben Stein’s new film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which asserts that college scientists have been excluding valid scientific data that supports the supernatural - a premise that is fallacious to the extreme, but likely will resonate well with believers. This seems to be just a part of a concerted attack against the well-established Theory of Evolution.
Read more about these developments at ARS Technica.
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