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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
my first comment here was to just be, the one question that gets posed from an Intelligent Design lecture, kid raises his hand and asks,"Who's designed it?"
as far as tec's last comment, that's a bit unfair and overgeneralizing, since if you look at Chinese History quite religious beliefs they had many scientific discoveries. Look at Islamic history and you'd find things as well from mathematics to engineering. Indonesia which has the highest Muslim population in the world, doesn't look anything like the Middle East societies.
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It is very true that science was forwarded quite extensively in countries that were primarily religious....but this was long ago, and the world is a very different place now. Much of the current science growth will inevitably continue to make a need for "Godly" explanations seem juvenile, and quite possible attach a new stigma to those who do not wish to accept what becomes obvious to society in general.
Indonesia is not a religious state, and in fact is based on the opposite of this. While every country certainly holds within its citizenry multiple faith based populations, the true theocracy instills dogma within the peoples, and makes state descision based partially, if not wholly on religious principle
(see Iran). Thus people hate and die, due to disagreement over manmade words of God.
I say manmade, because logically I cannot make any other conclusion based on the multitude of books the entity has authored, and the likelyhood of it causing such confusion and death on purpose, or as an experiment on its trained monkeys. While indeed science must be considered manmade as well, it does not claim otherwise in any way, and so can be honest and critical of its own content, allowing for some measure of truth to be found as a result.
I simply cant see ID going anywhere in a science class....except out the window after a few hours of theological discussion.