3/25/2005

Dover curriculum

New curriculum has been introduced in Dover biology classrooms known
as "intelligent design," which places an unnamed supervisor at the
helm of the creation of the universe. Inherent in this theory is the
belief that the universe is too complicated and intricate to exist and
have developed on its own. Because Dover teachers are not naming God
as the guiding hand behind our universe's creation, "intelligent
design" poses no religious threat to those students listening and
learning this new curriculum.


For those who wholeheartedly ascribe to the theory of evolution, this
new curriculum may be tough to swallow. However, for those with strong
religious leanings toward the God-created-the-world-in-seven­-days
theory, biology class has been at the least incomplete, and in the
most extreme cases, offensive for many years.


Although well-grounded, the theory of evolution is still nonetheless a
scientific theory. For hundreds of years it was believed that the
world was flat, which we now know is unequivocally false. Not that the
work of Charles Darwin should be discredited, but who is to say that
new overwhelming evidence will not reverse the popular consensus that
evolution is a real and workable theory to describe our existence in
the years to come?
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