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Dry_vby
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moakley
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 Posted - 08/10/2005 : 16:16:24 [Permalink]
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He told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday that he would oppose replacing evolution with ID in Australia's science classes but said parents should be able to choose that their children learn about it.
The those parents should teach it at home or issist that it be taught in their churches, perhaps Sunday school. |
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Ricky
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 08/11/2005 : 10:20:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
I got a question. How exactly would you teach ID? I mean, I would imagine the teacher would first say, "ID is a theory which says that life on this earth had to be designed by something intelligent. It could not have arose through natural processes."
But then what? Is there really anything else that you could teach? It seems that the only thing that ID'ers agree on is the fact that we were designed. They don't agree on who did it, when they did it, where they did it, how they did it...
So how the hell could you make a lesson plan for ID?
This is what I always wonder about! Since part of the ID "theory" says that it is impossible to know who or what the designer is or was, there's little else to say about ID other than it is. For instance, can the IDers tell us how this designer went about designing? Does the designer pop down to earth every few thousand year, tweak some animals' DNA using sophisticated technologies, and then zoom off? If you're going to have this sort of theory, then questions like how a designer designs, when a designer impliments her or his or its plans, and so on, are all important. But ID and IDers claim that such questions cannot be answered with ID. So really, it's almost useless! |
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moakley
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Posted - 08/11/2005 : 12:01:34 [Permalink]
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Probably not so much teaching of ID rather the teaching "The Critical Analysis of Evolution".
http://www.evolutionnews.org/index.php?p=339&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
A lesson plan create by high school teacher and PhD candidate Bryan Leonard. But it appears that his ID-based ?critical analysis? approach to teaching evolution in public schools dissertation defense has been put on hold. The result of having an assistent professor of French & Italian replace by the Dean of the Colleges of Biological Sciences on his dissertation committee. Poor Bryan. More details on this over at PT: http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/001127.html
Like you guys have already said, Not much to teach about ID.
I've never read "Of Pandas and People" but wasn't that book being considered as a supplement for teaching evolution? someplace? sometime in the last 15 years?
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 08/11/2005 : 12:31:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by moakley
Probably not so much teaching of ID rather the teaching "The Critical Analysis of Evolution".
http://www.evolutionnews.org/index.php?p=339&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
A lesson plan create by high school teacher and PhD candidate Bryan Leonard. But it appears that his ID-based ?critical analysis? approach to teaching evolution in public schools dissertation defense has been put on hold. The result of having an assistent professor of French & Italian replace by the Dean of the Colleges of Biological Sciences on his dissertation committee. Poor Bryan. More details on this over at PT: http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/001127.html
Like you guys have already said, Not much to teach about ID.
Right, moak. I just went over to the Discovery Institute site looking for something-- anything-- that might help me in teaching ID (were I so inclined). But all I found were articles, books, and links critiquing evolution. Honestly, it simply isn't clear to me that, if one wanted to, a semester-long course in ID could be taught. If the bulk of the data "supporting" a theory is simply the critique of rival one, one should be wary. |
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Dry_vby
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Posted - 08/11/2005 : 16:04:25 [Permalink]
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In the Downunderverse we pretty much excepted in schools a long time ago that Evolution was the thing to teach, and there hasn't been any kind of unease about that at all.
Now, we have a bunch of people (?) who tell us that Evolution should not stand alone and should at least have some opposition.
How they propose to mount that opposition is beyond me, but at the very least they are making themselves heard.
Surely, having the two ideas presented as a dichotemy isn't going to cause to much dysfunction in our way of life.
Someone with a proclivity towards this sought of thing might latch onto it as a safety device, but on the whole, in my experience, most people don't let it affect their day to day decision making.
Maybe it's just the people I hang with. |
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Hawks
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Posted - 08/11/2005 : 16:41:22 [Permalink]
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Honestly, it simply isn't clear to me that, if one wanted to, a semester-long course in ID could be taught. If the bulk of the data "supporting" a theory is simply the critique of rival one, one should be wary.
ID course curriculum, semester 1:
Week 1: The irreducible complexity of flagella.
Week 2: The irreducible complexity of the human eye.
Week 3: The irreducible complexity of the Krebs cycle.
Week 4: The irreducible complexity of ...
zzzzzzzzzzzzz (Abe Simpson)
What an interesting course.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/11/2005 : 19:09:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dry_vby
Dave W. was right.
There are times when being correct really sucks, and this is one of those times. Sorry to hear your countries kids have been targeted for ignorance. |
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Dry_vby
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