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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
well, i havent' had biology since AP bio in 11th grade, and have only added to that knowledge through what i've read on the internet. but the study of evolution only deals with how life has changed since it it began. not how life began (abiogenisis). technically, you could probably take it all the way back to the development of self-replicating non-life. like proteins, then whatever came next, and next, and next all the way to the first single celled organism. but evolution, strictly speaking, doesn't deal with that (at least as far as i know).
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From what some people were saying earlier in the thread, evolution (or offshoots of it) do attempt to state the cause of life. I say ignore that part, and that should be a decent compromise to those who advocate the teaching of ID. If they don't like it, tough. Neither can be proven as the origin of life, so don't give either time. Post-origin, evolution can be proven for the most part, so that should stay. ID (to my knowledge) does nothing to address the issue of how life might have gotten to this state, so they don't have any footing in debating the validity of that part of evolution being in schools.