Comments on: Propaganda and Teaching Intelligent Design

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:17:37 +0000

Hard to believe that this guy gets to keep his job. Hard to believe, and depressing.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:08:03 +0000

I’m still angry, and I first read this days ago. Nothing to add but I felt I should comment, if only to say, thanks, Stephen, for being another voice to call out ID as malarkey and for spotlighting Dembski’s abuse of power.

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By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:39:48 +0000

Trying to learn good debate through blog comments is like trying to learn journalism from the Weekly World News.

Nice zinger in a nicely-argued point. Count me in your camp, Dr. Boom.

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:47:41 +0000

It is both frightful and sad to know that there are people as low as him in the world. I do not have a valid, scientific or not, opinion on the Intelligent Design theory. The concept that there is something greater outside us, be it God or something more, is logical and beautiful to me. But I would never consider turning my opinions into bombs, placing them into the hands of children, and asking them to walk into ‘hostile territory’ with them. This is wrong on so many levels. And not to mention quite juvenile.

By: Joyous

Joyous — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:16:58 +0000

It’s kind of telling that this guy knows he’s teaching something that will require argument on hostile websites–it underscores the fact that there’s simply not enough to “intelligent design” to teach a full course on. His students will apparently have nothing better to do than pick fights. I’m trying to imagine a similar case, with a biology teacher requiring students to go argue on ID message boards–does not compute. They’d be too busy–oh, I dunno–studying science?

By: thad

thad — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:54:56 +0000

Agree completely with your blog. Shameless for a professor to force his students into promoting his position on the Internet.
As to the related issue, evolution and the relationship between science and religion/philosophy/theology, I’ve always appreciated the official statement made by the leadership of the Christian denomination in which I believe, in 1931, which I think was pretty forward-thinking for its time, and still is today:
“Upon the fundamental doctrines of the Church we are all agreed. Our mission is to bear the message of the restored gospel to the world. Leave geology, biology, archaeology, and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research, while we magnify our calling in the realm of the Church.”
If more people, on all sides of the issue, could simply leave science to science and theology to theology, the issue would become a non-issue.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:40:40 +0000

I’m certainly willing to call myself Christian, but that doesn’t mean I should give anyone a free pass based on them sharing a religion with me.

By: scyllacat

scyllacat — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:11:14 +0000

I just spoke to someone else this week–a friend–who is no longer comfortable calling herself a Christian because of the whackness (not to mention the burning in hell).

We want the “God loves us and wants us to be happy” (Plus “Kittens for everybody”) platform.

It’s always good to see people plainly pointing at this ID crap for what it is.

By: Kismet

Kismet — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:54:24 +0000

I find it sad that things like this are becoming more and more prevalent. I worry for the day when our country, which is supposed to have freedoms like religion and thought protected as well as speech, will end up divided. It truly is a fear of mine for our future generations.
Thank you Doc for being a man of science as well as a moral person of faith, who is willing to go against the religious “party line”, so to speak. I appreciate that you and your family are involved in your church and raising your kids in faith. I am glad there will be another generation of people who think for themselves coming after us.