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Originally Posted by Rasczak  It looks like you aren't familiar with the movie or the ideas presented in it at all. One of the major points of the movie is that a belief in intelligent design is compatible with Science and can at least be questioned. Stein uses Galileo and other scientists in proving his thesis.
You can't compare Galileo to what "Big Science" is doing today anyway. Galileo challenged the consensus view at the time. If you were to analogize the two, Galileo, Newton, and the like, would be the ones challenging the consensus view today - and being figuratively burned at the stake for it.
There is no promotion of creationism in the film - far from it. |
I agree that belief in "intelligent design" is compatible with both science and evolution (as a likely mechanism). Many great scientists (like Einstein) believed in God, who have helped shape the theory of evolution. Darwin himself was undecided on the existence of God.
As far as teaching "intelligent design" in schools goes ... honestly it might be a good idea. It could be used as an example of comparing several theories, comparing to the data, having the students select the "best model" in their minds. Other supernatural theories could be thrown into the mix as well.
From an atheistic perspective, "intelligent design" theory may be partly true, in that an organism plays a vital part in selecting a mate... meaning there is *some* intelligence involved in overall species evolution, just not necessarily a supernatural kind. A species will evolve, partly, in the direction that it wants to evolve.
Although it's one of those things where people like Ben Stein should be "wary of what they wish for." Putting religion in a science class may actually damage religious faith more than help it ... do they really want a biology teacher dissecting their faith?