| That Guy said: Throwing the idea out there as an intro elective class is a good way of getting people to work on it. I don't understand why you're so against even giving people the chance to investigate ID. How else are they going to look into it? TV? AIG? VGChartz? |
The question becomes why isn't their interest from existing experts or people who support the theory to do this work? The problem is that right now there is no science to be done because there is no theory. The theory as an idea is not formalized and it needs to be before you could even put it in a classroom much less test its validity in a meaningful way.
We aren't against people having the chance to investigate ID, we are against legitimizing it when its not even a theory yet..its a collection of unorganized ideas from a wide array of people. The point is that students are not the people who need to vet the issue, experts are.
If someone raised questions about the validity of 1+1 we wouldn't take it to the classroom and let first grade students debate it. The relationship between science and the classroom is about teaching the best of our knowledge, not teaching the comprehensive history of our knowledge. We don't spend a lot of time explaining the flat-earth theories and the reason is because they are worthless to the student in any field other than the oddities of historical science.
Really this goes to the heart of the issue, if the idea can't survive the battles of the scientific process like every other idea thats not because of the big mean bullies its because the idea has no merit. In this case the idea hasn't even been formally proposed yet. Pushing the ideology on classrooms is asking to convince the less informed and just proposing such a thing should immediately raise suspicion, because it's akin to taking the dark back alley to the land of scientific legitimacy rather than the inviting & brightly lit street paved quadruple wide, to use a metaphor.
I believe I covered the main points to your post, if you feel I've omitted something important let me know.
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