Dear Bertvan
>Hi Richard. Labeling ID a religious view seems like an attempt to
prevent it
>being mentioned in schools. ID is the belief that the diversity of life
and
>the universe is too complex to have occurred by chance. That is
compatible
>with most religious views, but ID itself makes no religious statement,
except
>to claim the complexity of life is the result of intelligence. If
enough
>people hold this view, I see no harm in school children being aware of
it.
Seems to me it is difficult to mention ID without mentioning the nature
of the ID. If we insert space aliens, gaia, or whatever into the chain of
command all we do is add another layer to the bureaucracy but still end
up with the problem of first cause.
These days scientists are like preachers in that neither has the guts to
admit they don't understand something and refuse to pool their ignorance.
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