We heard about New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago and now Missoouri Lawmakers are wanting to inject the controversy in public schools.
Missouri bill would require the teaching of intelligent design - KansasCity.com: "A Republican lawmaker from Harrisonville wants all students in Missouri public schools, as well as those in introductory college courses, to be taught intelligent design alongside evolution in their science classes.
Rep. Rick Brattin said his bill is about teaching both sides of a debate in “an objective manner.” But his critics contend he’s just trying to inject religion in the classroom.
“Intelligent design is a religious philosophy, not a science,” said Josh Rosenau, programs and policy director for the National Center for Science Education."
These days language can be fuzzy. Intelligent design is not inherently religious as Josh Rosenau states. Even if intelligent design is deemed religious it is not more religious then Darwinian evolution. The humanism religious movement promotes evolution as one of its main tenants. Indeed Catholics maintain evolution as God's plan for the ages. At best evolution is a theoretical science and nowhere near applied science.
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