Eddie said,
The term "evolution" has been completely struck from the text books, and has been replaced with euphemisms designed to placate the fundies, like "change over time" and "developmental progression". Did you know that there are 94 synonyms for evolution? And that textbook writers are expected to use them in order to be "more precise"?
There is a Law of gravity, but Evolution is a theory, NOT a law. If you and your daughter want to "go with the flow" on the theory of Evolution, why should the rest of us be force fed it?
Your argument against "force feeding" creationism is a form of mockery. Next you will be telling us creationism requires we believe the earth is 6,000 years old and is flat too.
The implications of intelligent design are one thing; the science is another. Let's not confuse the two. Science does not do slippery slopes.
The evidence of cell biology nano-molecular machines has been presented, peer reviewed and fastidiously fact checked over and over. The complexity of these machines could NOT come about through random mutations in 12-14 billion years. If your daughter does not know this, she is behind in her science. As you know, a scientist MUST be ready to question any theory that no longer best explains the evidence.
Intelligent design is not "the tooth fairy did it"; it's a more rational explanation of life than Darwinian evolution.
The belief, and that's all it is (regardless of what textbooks claim) that modern scientific advances are a result of the acceptance in the scientific community of the Theory of Evolution as the best explanation of how life came to be here is merely human resistance to change.
The Piltdown man fraud is history. So is the "tadpole to human evolution" fetal development baloney that was in biology textbooks for half a century AFTER it had been proven a clever fraud.
It's time the theory of evolution was sent to the dustbin of failed theories. That's science. If people don't want to believe in God, so what? You supporters of evolution think that people in your camp will be given a firing squad for being an infidel if intelligent design is accepted. That's just silly.
The reality is that if ANYBODY that is a credentialed scientist and attempts to discuss or write about, with accompanying scientific HARD EVIDENCE, the irreducibly complex cell machinery and the theory of intelligent design, he or she gets fired from their university or research lab position and CANNOT get a job in the same field because WORD GETS AROUND!
THAT is what I consider THREATENING, FASCIST, INTOLERANT and UNSCIENTIFIC behavior.
But you think those scientists that get kicked out of THE CLUB for talking irreducible cell complexity deserve to go. Don't deny it. The fact that you are sweating fundy craziness and are happy as a lark about the "way it works" in the evolutionary true believer university club is proof.
When I see you weigh in equally against intolerance on both issues, I will accept you are being objective. Yeah, I know, you aren't going to lose any sleep over my opinion. Join the crowd.