I wonder exactly what future he envisions Intelligent Design training to benefit…
August 19, 2005 Frist Backs Bush on Teaching ‘Intelligent Design’ in Schools By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 - The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, aligned himself with President Bush today when he said that the theory of “intelligent design” should be taught along with evolution in public schools.
Teaching intelligent design as well as evolution “doesn’t force any particular theory on anyone,” Senator Frist, Republican of Tennessee, said in Nashville, according to The Associated Press. “I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future.”
A Washington spokesman for the senator, Nick Smith, said afterward that The A.P. had reported Mr. Frist’s comments accurately.
I don’t think many politicians denote the difference between philosophy and science. Because …
Teaching intelligent design as well as evolution “doesn’t force any particular theory on anyone,” Senator Frist, Republican of Tennessee, said in Nashville, according to The Associated Press. “I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future.”
Does that sound bad to anyone (in terms of philosophy)?
Teaching - the imparting of knowledge - a concept based on the premise that there is no knowledge to be taught because it’s just too darn complex to understand. Oxymoron.
This, acording to Dr. Frist, will help prepare our students for the future???
An oxymoron is an expression that uses contrdictory terms like “cruel kindness” or “common uniqueness.” Teaching ID may sound strange to you, but it isn’t an oxymoron. ID is a theory or an idea, and much like the theory of relativity or the concept of love, it could be taught. How else would so many people know about it? Quite a bit of “teaching” about ID has been going on on this forum as a matter of fact.
As to whether or not teaching ID will help prepare kids for the future, that could certainly be debated.
It’s interesting to see Frist tack left and right in an attempt to position himself as a Presidential candidate. It seems so obvious that one might doubt its “authenticity” if that’s the appropriate word. Perhaps I’m a bit cloistered here, but I find it pretty amazing that he thinks he has any chance at all, and that he thinks anybody even knows who he is. At least Santorum is known, albeit for being a freak.