week 2 post 2

intelligent design

I am really starting to get interested in this whole debate onevolution and the battle between science and religion. It's quitethe heated debate. Ken miller argues in this lecture aboutintelligent design and how it stands up against evolution. He makessome very good points in his lecture but i think his main goal is forpeople to stop criticizing the evolution theory. Yes, there areplenty of facts to support it but of course it will always be seen asa theory. As is plenty of other aspects of science but none with suchcontroversy as evolution. He points this out by showing stickersplaced on biology books that warn readers that these books containinformation on evolution but should be read with an open mind andcritically considered. Miller argues that the warning should beplaced for the entire science field. Anything contained in thosebooks is science theories based on facts and should always beapproached with an open mind. Singling out evolution makes it seemlike everything else stated in a science textbook is true. This ofcourse is not nescessarilly the case.

The other part of the film that really interested me was the skitabout The theory of evolution and inteligent design both explainingthier points of view and finding out at the end that they pretty muchsound the same except the intelligent design theory sounds likethere's no real support behind it; just magic. Even though I foundthe skit humorous, i still felt bad because I felt that they weremaking fun of a religious standpoint. I feel like the morescientific the world get, the less room there is to be a person offaith.