Evolution and Intelligent Design in the News

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Above is a blog entry from an ABC News journalist reporting on, among other things, the recent ruling that a Pennsylvania court gave in response to a public school attempting to require the the teaching of Intelligent Design (ID) as an alternative theory to evolution. This topic of ID and evolution is something I think I am well informed about, and I have to admit that I am a little saddened by this story. Evolution is taught without question in our schools today despite the basic fact that it teaches us that we came from nothing and came through the most incomprehensible odds that we can imagine to get us to the modern age. ID on the other hand makes a much more logical assertion (atleast it is more logical in my book) that we did not come from nothing, but from a creator. I realize that this theory has religious implications, but I also believe that you are very naive to think that macroevolution does not. It certainly rules out the Judeo-Christian conception of God that many Americans adhere to. I realize that teaching ID in public schools is tricky, because it could be used to point to a particular religion, but there are valid objections to macroevolution that ID can offer explanations to. I do not see why the mentioning of an alternate theory in classrooms is being met with such resistance by our government.