Science as 'a systematic method of continuing investigation'
We definitely haven't heard the last of the evolution vs. creation debate in our courts. This from religion columnist Cary McMullen:
"The Kansas state board of education, after a week of hearings boycotted by every respectable science-education organization in the nation, is poised at the end of the summer not just to permit the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution — it is attempting something much more audacious. The board will consider an astonishing proposal to redefine science itself as "a systematic method of continuing investigation" that is not limited to natural explanations.
"Why, silly us. And we thought science is an attempt to explain the natural world by observable means. The board ought to get some kind of medal for illogic, which they could wear below the crosses around their necks."
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You know, the "tension" between science and religion exists, I think, only in the minds of people who fear that they will lose their faith if they learn too much.
There are plenty of scientists who also have faith in God... but you don't see them trying to sneak the supernatural into their theories or their experiments. Let science be science, and keep religion in its proper place.
Posted on May 27, 2005 8:42 AM