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Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?

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Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
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RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 30, 2014 at 10:13 am
I don't have a problem with schools co-opting the terms "creationism" and "intelligent design" by explaining to students that the only observed instances of either are when humans create or design things.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself? - by Tonus - May 30, 2014 at 10:13 am

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