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Irate individuals who blast Intelligent Design as unintelligent will have to blast their own now. “Cornell University plans to offer a course this summer on intelligent design, using textbooks by leading proponents of the controversial theory of origins.”
Further, if the irate will have to blast their own, so too will Judge John E. Jones who gave a stinging rebuke to a Dover, Pa. school board that required students listen to a statement noting that evolution is a theory and that Intelligent Design “is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view.” He stated that Intelligent Design was mere religion. We can only pray that he and the rest of the irate will have a change of heart, as it seems the Cornell President has. He was as bad as Jones. However, interestingly, “the announcement comes just half a year after Cornell President Hunter Rawlings III denounced intelligent design as a ‘religious belief masquerading as a secular idea.’” With this move by Cornell, we can only hope and believe that others will be compelled to at least acknowledge the legitimacy of this alternate theory to evolution. “Proponents of intelligent design say it draws on recent discoveries in physics, biochemistry and related disciplines that indicate some features of the natural world are best explained as the product of an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. Supporters include scientists at numerous universities and science organizations worldwide.” “Taught by senior lecturer Allen MacNeill of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department, Cornell's four-credit seminar course will use books such as ‘Debating Design,’ by William Dembski and Michael Ruse; and ‘Darwin's Black Box,’ by Michael Behe.” Interestingly enough, Dembski is a well-known Southern Baptist seminary professor. From the foregoing, it seems that academic freedom is alive and well at Cornell. Moreover, “The university's Intelligent Design Evolution Awareness club said that while it's been on the opposite side of MacNeill in many debates, it has appreciated his “commitment to the ideal of the university as a free market-place of ideas.’ ‘We have found him always ready to go out of his way to encourage diversity of thought, and his former students speak highly of his fairness,’ the group said. ‘We look forward to a course where careful examination of the issues and critical thinking is encouraged.’ Maybe the South Carolina School Board could take a queue from Cornell. In their rejection of critical analysis, they have rejected academic freedom and genuine learning at the same time. Now, let us point out that Intelligent Design is not Biblical Creationism. However, if ID gets a seat at the table, perhaps Evolution will end up starving to death. Regardless, with ID at the table, the notion of a wise Creator/God is not intellectually untenable to the secular elite. In God’s providence, we could eventually be welcomed to the table. For that day we must pray. |
Marqui
Written by 'Guest' on 2006-05-06 11:14:03
I am praying for God's will to be done concerning this. It is about time people started to fess up to the fact that Darwinism is not a fact and that ID, even though it is not biblical creationism, at least acknowledges that my greatest grandfather was not an ape. |
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