What is Intelligent Design?

Intelligent Design(ID): a fringe religious belief.  Much like our ancestors believed they could see gods in the random patterns of stars, intelligent design researchers believe they can see ‘their’ god’s handiwork in the complexity of biological and other natural systems.  Through boisterous promotion and political mechanations intelligent design adherents have made ongoing unsuccessful attempts to have their beliefs added to the science curriculum of US public schools.  This approach bypasses the standard approach of building a broad scientific consensus before making additions to course materials.

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.