I just had the most wonderful evening listening to Will Provine on(sic!) ID (...much sacracsam under or over god)....
EvC Forum: Prof Denies Human Free Will
At the end the question came from the audience, "How would you teach "the thing" ID in high school." Will has been fully consistent over the years. He explained what he always has. He lets all the students talk. If they talk about ID he allows that to be discussed. Once a student talks, what is talked about is open for discussion. Will's message however, is what has changed and been lost in biological thought since the 60s instead. He said he usually simply introduces himself as "your atheist evolutionist" and goes from there.
On the college level he still does not tell the students "ID is not science" because as soon if someone as if they said that, other students point out the science involved. He explained students are so quick to say this that he does not need to.
I guess teaching is one thing, discussing another. Again on a higher level he thinks it need not be taught that one uses asthetics in choosing hypothesis becuase even if the hypothesis is ugly, if true, it will be accepted immediately, as soon as it is percieved as true. Evolution might not be a hypothesis strictly then. Things within evolutionary theory are however.
This message has been edited by Brad McFall, 10-26-2005 07:11 AM
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