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Originally Posted by Superbelt
When it comes to a hard science, yes you CAN disregard what people want their children taught.
It's science class. We teach facts there. ID has no facts. The absolute bedrock of science if the ability to be falsible. ID cannot be falsified.
Democracy doesn't work for something like this. We can't just go and ask all the parents, "Give us the details of this bit of science" They don't know, they didn't spend their lives gaining a graduate degree in a field of science and studying something to find out what the truth is. Science doesn't work through majority opinion.
Children should be taught the truth, not what parents want to teach them. Schools have a duty to educate.
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Well there are a lot of things we teach in science that aren't facts. A lot of physics that I was taught in my serior year of high school through college were theory. There was some evidence to support it, but there was no proof yet. The same is true of evolution. There is some evidence to support it, but it has yet to be proven. Recently, though, intelligent design has seena reemergance in scientific circles. Positive evidence of design in living systems consists of the semantic, meaningful or functional nature of biological information, the lack of any known law that can explain the sequence of symbols that carry the "messages," and statistical and experimental evidence that tends to rule out chance as a plausible explanation. In those cases, we see a possible contradiction to evolution and we see evidence of intelligence in design. To not include ID in schools is to exclude a valid theory. ID casn bee falasified in my eyes as can evolution. It's a matter of proof. I know not all scientists accept ID a a valid theory, but a lot of scietists don't accept evolution as valid as well.
Personally, I'd like to have ID taught in science classes, and religion taught in social studies classes. They are an integral part of human histroy. It doesn't make sense not to teach them.