4/24/2005

ID pseudoscience

Intelligent design (ID) has failed to meet even the minimal standards of
evidence and scholarship we should expect of the science we teach our children.
Teaching it steals time from more vital subjects in which our kids should be
grounded.


Science is a conservative process. Most college-level introductory textbooks
contain only material that has stood the test of time and has been confirmed
independently.


ID proponents have not only failed to provide any evidence for their thesis,
they aren't even trying. There are no labs doing research on this subject; all
the papers the Discovery Institute has tried to publish are exercises in spin,
in which they try to distort biology researchers' work to fit their
preconceptions.
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