University to Teach ‘Intelligent Design’ as Myth
Filed Under (Amazing, Good News, News) by Ian on 26-11-2007
Tagged Under : education, intelligent design, myth, school, teaching
Now this is some good news. ‘Bout time schools treat myth as such.
University to Teach ‘Intelligent Design’ as Myth
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Creationism and intelligent design are going to be studied at the University of Kansas, but not in the way advocated by opponents of the theory of evolution.
A course being offered next semester by the university religious studies department is titled “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies.”
“The KU faculty has had enough,” said Paul Mirecki, department chairman.
“Creationism is mythology,” Mirecki said. “Intelligent design is mythology. It’s not science. They try to make it sound like science. It clearly is not.”
Earlier this month, the state Board of Education adopted new science teaching standards that treat evolution as a flawed theory, defying the view of science groups.
Oh boy - that’s going to rattle some creationists’ cages. Cant wait to see the fallout over this one :)
That certainly is excellent news. The fundies will no doubt be bleating loudly. I, on the other hand, would like to take the class.
great news, it is about time for this to happen. Congratulations to the U of K. The fundie nuts will be creaming in their drawers over this
Hahaha! This news made my day.
Damn right! Just remember, at some point, all the things we as a societal whole now think are ridiculous were once held as absolutes. Greek Mythology, World is flat, and so on….a bunch of people who believed that stuff all had to be pissed off at some point in order for things to finally change. This to me, hopefully, is the first step.
Good news indeed.
But I have a problem with those sects. I have a few American friends who are really amiable and ‘normal’ and have been very helpful as host parents to our son when he was an exchangee in the States, but they are devout Mormons. It is not that they are in any way trying to push their belief on us yet I feel uneasy at the thought that these nice people with whom you can harmoniously converse on many things are adherents to such a gigantic web of nonsense.
Not that I have sleepless nights. Just wonder. Anyone wanting to comment?
Oh, by the way, I am German, age 65 (2 when WW II ended), baptized Roman Catholic but in truth at least Agnostic.
Arminius: It would seem that some people are habitual believers and remain (possibly) essentially harmless. After all, beliefs are not facts, they are just treated as such by many humans, and lots of people have odd superstitions in their belief systems. The majority of your Mormon friends probably are like many others in the world; good people, doing their best to make sense of a strange and sometimes random, senseless place.
Its the fundamentalists that get into positions of power as law makers and politicians, or the zealots that insist that everyone lives the same way or suffers that scare me.