Weaknesses Of Evolutionary Theory

The National Center for Science Education reports
that the teaching of evolution is being challenged
in seventeen states. These include Kansas, where
a decision will soon be made on whether intelligent
design should be taught in schools, and Wisconsin,
where one school district requires the teaching of
the "scientific strengths and weaknesses of
evolutionary theory." One Georgia county required
a sticker in school science textbooks explaining
that evolution is "a theory, not a fact" -- until last
month, that is, when a court (wrongly, in my opinion)
ruled the stickers unconstitutional.

Many see all of these challenges and debates as
nothing less than an all-out assault on science
by the great unwashed. The most frequent com-
plaint is that intelligent design is a religious
theory, not a scientific one, and as such has
no place in a science classroom or textbook.
For instance, the executive director of the
National Association of Biology Teachers
has said, "There is no research to support
[intelligent design], and it is clearly religious
in that it posits a higher being." This com-
plaint displays abysmal ignorance.

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