CNN.com - Evolution hearings open in Kansas The epic, six-year battle in Kansas over teaching of "evolution" or "intelligent design (creationism)" continues to go on and on. The religious zealots on both sides of the issue should go take a "get-over-it" pill and two doses of common sense.
The true believers in evolution will stand for no other explanation. They seem to have science on their side with enough evidence of evolution of some species to move it from hypothesis to theorey. As the creationists point out, there are some holes in the facts that evolutionists can't account for. Since the data are probably (literally) buried in the past, they may never be found. In fact, Darwin's "natural selection" has, shall we say, been evolving over the years as any scientific theory should to fit new facts.
Hard core evolutionists want no other theory taught.
Hard core creationists want the Bible (which version?) taken literally and no other explanation taught. The soft-core creationists want "intelligent design" taught as an alternate view.
I'm not sure that teaching intelligent design as an alternate view is improper. Personally, I believe that all life is where it is now by a long process of evolution and the evolution process is the design. Who is to say that one day the guy upstairs might just explain it to us that way. In any event, I can't see what the fuss is about as long as neither are taught as absolute dogma.
The funny thing about science is that it evolves with new knowledge. What are the diehard evolutionists going to do when science blows their pet dogma's away for a new and improved version?
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