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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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But what if the truth isn't known? For the record, I believe in evolution. But in another thread there WAS a debate over the scientific validity of ID, and many scholoars admited the possibility to be the same as that of evolution theory, so I don't see how it has no facts. There is no conclusive evidence for evolution-it doesn't stand up to the same tests as other well-known theorems.
Honestly, it doesn't seem that they even deal with the same thing: one gives a process (evolution) and one gives the reason for the start of the process (ID).