Should Intelligent Design Be Taught In School?

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We teach children theories about how the universe came into existence. These theories are allowed just as long as those cosmological models do not have an intelligence behind them. Why the bias?

Has the universe always existed? I don't think the universe has always existed, nor has an endless cycle of universes existed.


Human reason would question:how long "always" was, until this point in time. We would be forever waiting for now to arrive.


If the universe had a beginning it is portrayed as an uncaused cause on a galactic scale, even a mind boggling universal scale.

Einstein said " we have all been fooled " there is no matter, just energy. As he reasoned this, I can't help but consider the billions of other human beings with self-awareness pondering these same things. Very organized energy has awoke to self awareness and are taught that this is just a probability due to expanse of odds.

I don't think so.

I think it should be allowed that children be encouraged to think outside the secular "box", thought and opinions in today's school.

God stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing .-Job

This is accurate, The Bible also tells us that the stars are as the sand an innumerable. Scientists at the time believed there were 3000.

Many top physicists today and in times past have marveled at the laws of the universe . Why do these laws exist? Why does the universe seem fine-tuned for existence ? Some have said that the universe looks as though it was expecting mankind.

For over 40 years the piltdown hoax was taught in public schools, evidence at the monkey trials presented by Darrow was nothing more than a hoax. Recapitulation theory was taught in public schools for 150 years, a basically worthless discredited theory.

Much of the debate is centered around a literal and often personal interpretation of Genesis. That God had created everything and every animal in 6 days. Lets take a look at that :And God said: Let the waters bring forth. And God said: Let the earth bring forth. Abiogenesis: The study of life from non-life


Should Intelligent Design be offered in some form in Public Schools at least elective?

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Most of the original colleges in America were founded by organized religion, namely Christianity. As well as the one-room school houses that were originally Churches. More than likely your ancestors were taught how to read and write in these one room Church/schools.

Later, this property was usually donated to public school systems.


Where was the separation of Church and state then?

Shouldn't public schools give this property back or at least acknowledge the debt that the citizens of the United States owe, for their very literacy?

But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

~albert einstein

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debrakcarey 2 years ago

Of course ID should be taught...children deserve to be thought HOW to think a thing through. Not taught to accept what anyone tells them just because they are in charge! Like you pointed out....many WRONG ideas were taught in the name of science...did those people (kids) get a chance to know or consider anything else? I think it is the height of conceit to think, in this day and age, that science knows everything. Look at how much, just in my lifetime, has been learned. My grandchildren, if given a chance, may know even more than we could comprehend! Great Blog Phoenix ( I almost typed KING...lol

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einron Level 3 Commenter 2 years ago

Intelligent Design should be taught in schools.

Most of the universities owe their beginnings also to Christianity, e.g. Harvard, Yale, etc.

Why are the universities not speaking up in protest against those who would like to ban prayer and taking out words like "IN GOD WE TRUST." America was built up by the pilgram fathers and became the greatest nation on earth. What happens now? That America has fallen down in so many areas? Wake up America!

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PhoenixV Hub Author 2 years ago

Exactly Einron , most of the original colleges were founded by Christians and no one want to acknowlege this fact , as well as most hopsitals .

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awcase 2 years ago

this was very interesting i really enjoyed this hub thx for sharing your thought.

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milynch43 2 years ago

I believe it should be taught to our children. I don’t find it any more ridicules than Darwin’s theories’s that we all evolved. The balance in nature and in the universe is too perfect to have happened by chance. On the other side I think the fundamentalists that want to say the earth was created in seven days are shooting themselves in the foot. On which one of the seven days were the dinosaurs created. We have the fossils to prove their existence. They want to take the Genesis account to mean a literal seven days. Do a little research first. The bible says a day to the Lord is as a thousand years. The day of judgment in revelations is described as a thousand years. There is no reason science and intelligent design theories can not coexist.

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GGarza 2 years ago

Imagine the outrage if the discussion were, should Wicca be taught in school? The answer would be no.

Intelligent design is not science, not even science fiction.

Children have a hard enough time understanding was is real and what is not. We put up with silly notions like the Tooth fairy, Santa Clause, the Great Pumpkin, but we wouldn't teach that stuff in school as science. Nor should we teach ID in school as science either.

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PhoenixV Hub Author 2 years ago

An intelligent designer is a potential cosmological model. Conversely ,alluding to : Tooth fairies , Santa Clause {sic ,The great pumpkin are disingenuous, sophomoric arguments.

anonomous 2 years ago

of course intelligent design should be taught in school. it is one of the most widely believed theories of how man came to be. evolution is also a theory and a non fool proof one at that. children should be taught both sides so they can come to their own conclusion and learn how to reason through a difficult issue in which the real answer is unknown.

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PhoenixV Hub Author 20 months ago

I think so too

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randslam Level 5 Commenter 16 months ago

Intelligent design remains a doctrinal issue...do we teach science in church? The reason for separation of church and state is not a mystery--this separation allows people to teach their children as they wish--and to continue with the rights of equality for all humankind at the state level.

When religion gets mixed up with politics and vice versa we cause issues of totalitarianism. These are important isms to avoid in government.

Politicians have enough trouble staying above board without religion taking over.

In our school systems, is it not wiser to teach that a child may learn without having to filter everything through the lens of religion?

Freedom of religion is a democratic right--let's not bog down our schools with issues that a child can deal with as he or she matures. There is enough illiteracy on this planet without having to worry where to teach the earth's genesis.

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PhoenixV Hub Author 16 months ago

Thanks Rand. Intelligent Design is a cosmological model. Why is secularism afraid of theory?

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oceansnsunsets Level 7 Commenter 15 months ago

I think Intelligent Design should be allowed to be taught in schools as at least one of many options for "origins". Nothing else scientifically or in any other way compares to making the most logical sense as intelligent design does. Nothing else even suggested has been shown to be able to achieve what we do know and see all around us and in history and in mankind. Great hub.

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PhoenixV Hub Author 15 months ago

Its odd that scientists are open minded to so many cosmological models, but become amazingly biased if someone proposes an Intelligent Cosmological Model.

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oceansnsunsets Level 7 Commenter 14 months ago

I have observed that as well. Sometimes I think it may be that they are allowing their held materialistic worldview to dictate what is even "allowed to be possible". That doesn't make sense.

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