Monkey or Donkey?
Sam
textbook stickers questioning evolution to be unconstitutional; a
challenge to the teaching of intelligent design is scheduled for trial
in Dover, Pa; and the Kansas State Board of Education is expected to
require the teaching of doubts about evolution in public high schools.
On Monday, President Bush added fuel to the debate, when stating that
he believes that schools should teach both "intelligent design" and
evolution, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported.
A Knight Ridder news service reporter asked Bush about it; "Very
interesting question," Bush replied to the reporter; "Both sides ought
to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is
about," Bush continued, according to an official transcript of the
session. Bush added: "Part of education is to expose people to
different schools of thought. . . . You're asking me whether or not
people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."
Less than two months ago, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, archbishop of
Vienna and an influential Roman Catholic theologian, said evolution as
"an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural
selection" is untrue. "Any system of thought that denies or seeks to
explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is
ideology, not science," Schonborn wrote in the New York Times.
Schonborn said that he wanted to correct the idea that neo-Darwinism is
compatible with Christian faith.
Any views?
Sam
