Diverse Ideas

Danny Carlton blogged Schools fear students may be exposed to diverse ideas - From USAToday...

Is intelligent design science or religion? That's the question a U.S. district court judge in Harrisburg will consider starting Sept. 26, and Dover voters will weigh Nov. 4.
The two tests arise from a long struggle to discredit evolution, the theory that life forms evolved over billions of years through a natural process. Though broadly accepted by scientists, evolution has long been challenged by creationists who say God created the universe.

Interesting how the paper seems to assume scientists and Creationists are mutually exclusive concepts.

And even if you accept the fact that strict Creationism, which holds that Genesis is literally true, is inconsistent with Evolution, Intelligent Design, which holds that God used Evolution as one of the tools he used in Creation, is not inconsistent with Evolution

Never mind the numerous Creationists with advanced science degrees who also work in scientific fields.

Courts repeatedly have found that teaching creationism in public schools amounts to promoting a religious viewpoint, in violation of the Constitution. Now come intelligent-design advocates. Hoping to avoid church-state conflicts, they don't discuss the identity of the designer, and they deny any link to creationism.

Okay, the truth...activists judges using the courts to enforce their own religious viewpoints have declared the acknowledgment of a higher being as “the establishment of religion”

Even though all branches of Christianity, Judiasm, and Islam all believe in a higher being

while the forced assumption that there is no higher being gets a pass on being called religion, even though it does enforce a religious viewpoint — Atheism.

And I believe that the Supreme Court established that Secular Humanism is a religion.

The line should read, “Hoping to avoid the illogical labyrinth of court forced procelytation of the religion of Evolution, they don't discuss the identity of the designer...”