Intelligent Design Discussion at the Newseum

C-Span 2's airing of Drs. Michael Behe and Patricia Princehouse, "Close Up at the Newseum," just ended. The two of them took part in a moderated discussion before a crowd of high school students from Utah, Michigan, Louisiana, California, and perhaps other states not mentioned. What the professors said was not nearly as interesting as what the students had to say.

The discussion between Dr. Princehouse, an evolutionary biologist from Case Western Reserve University, and Dr. Behe, a noted Intelligent Design leader from Lehigh University, covered all the usual topics. From my perspective Dr. Princehouse made many of the usual errors. She dismissed ID for having supposedly come from religious origins, a clear case of the genetic fallacy; she pronounced ID a religious view, which is contrary to the facts; and more.

But this is nothing new; it's become rather ho-hum, and I've about quit blogging on these kinds of things. But the students who stood up to speak on the issue almost all said they thought it would be good to teach ID in schools. Their curiosity and interest was really quite refreshing. They're involved in the issue--they want to learn! How could anyone suppose this would ruin the future of American science?

This is by no means a scientific sampling of student opinion. (Has anyone surveyed students to find out what they think about this?) To think, though, that they're unaware of the concept and won't have questions

Posted: Fri - November 30, 2007 at 08:17 PM |

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Intelligent Design Discussion at the Newseum

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