Does Intelligent Design Have Merit?

Does Intelligent Design Have Merit?

With about 70 billion stars and as many as 100 million life forms (at least here on Earth), the universe is a stunningly complex place. Did all of this matter evolve independently, or was it guided by a larger force – as proponents of intelligent design believe? With the debate raging in living rooms, classrooms and courtrooms, the stakes are high when it comes to determining intelligent design’s merit.

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Public schools are not supposed to be in the business of promoting religion. ID proponents have made a half-hearted effort to secularize ID, but at the end of the day, their true motivations always shine through. Phillip Johnson, the so-called "father of Intelligent Design," once told a religious audience that his goal is to use ID to instill doubt about evolution in people's minds and then introduce them to "the truth" of Jesus Christ. If convincing someone to adopt a new religion is your end goal, what you are doing is not science. It is proselytizing.

In light of this, public schools would do well to steer way clear of Intelligent Design. Any schools that seek to introduce it into the classroom are likely to end up like the board in Dover -- as international laughingstocks facing huge legal bills.

By the way, voters in Dover go so tired of the antics of the pro-ID faction on the board that they voted out every last one of them. Even in small-town America, it seems, the desire is for real science education in the classroom and religious instruction in church.

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