aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, May 30, 2005

“Creationism’s Trojan Horse”

Guest post by Jen.

The line between religion and science continues to fade. 

Those trying to rid school curricula of references to evolution have donned the pseudoscientific cloak of Intelligent Design, says a recent article in the scientific journal Nature.

Intelligent design advocates want to split open the public’s understanding of science and convince people that you can call on the supernatural for a scientific explanation

says Barbara Forrest, co-author of “Creationism’s Trojan Horse:  The Wedge of Intelligent Design”.

The official scientific community is up in arms (well, maybe not the Smithsonian), and (according to the article),

many theologians are equally upset by intelligent design.

Education could be the solution.  In a sidebar, the article notes that

Support for Darwin increases with level of education.
postgraduate education = 65% support, college graduate = 52% support, some college education = 32% support, high school or less = 20% support

But IDEA clubs, supporting the concept of Intelligent Design, are springing up all over college campuses in the U.S. and elsewhere (20 clubs, to date).  Let’s hope our students are too apathetic to start one.