Comment Deal with the arguments, cut the ranting. (Score 1) 1634
Those ought to be easy. All the comments about creationism, well, fighting that is easy too.
What I find intriguing is that no one is actually dealing with the assertions that the proponents of intelligent design are making. All this yammering about "it's junk science" and "re-heated creationism" is helping them out. In order to beat intelligent design, someone has to address the claims that they are actually making. Those claims are more about applied statistics than theology. There are atheists who hold to intelligent design and muslims and other groups of non-christians. They aren't arguing for the book of Genesis. These sorts of ad hominem arguments aren't going to touch the future of science education. I mean, read what the original anonymous coward wrote in, "a robust education." It's ad hominem as well as circular. He may have a much better argument, but he's not voicing that, he's just ranting. These are the kinds of fallacies that make the people backing intelligent design look so much better than the opponents.
Besides, since when have people gotten a better understanding of the truth by excluding more ideas? If intelligent design is in fact bunk, then people will have no problems picking that out. It will rise or fall by its own merits. If no one can refute the claims they make, then it may rise, and rightfully so. But if we can genuinely refute those claims, they will have about a snowball's chance in hell of surviving the next 20 years.
-ex
