WHY EVOLUTION ALWAYS WINS
Recently, "Intelligent Design on Trial", one of NOVA's recent episodes caught my attention and I applaud them for giving an insight to the public of what happened during the Dover trial. I was rather intrigued as I watched but at the same saddened by the fact that the United States is so far back with this whole debate. The fact of the matter is that many in this nation continue to doubt an inevitable process with decades of testing. Surely, if something as creationism and evolution were two opposing views socially, the entire world would be debating this issue. However if you look at countries like Germany, Sweden, Denmark and any other developed country for that matter, there is no paradox and definately no debate of such caliber as seen in the U.S.on the whole concept of evolution.
I remember when I was in secondary school on the island of Trinidad, a developing nation where church and state are almost entwined, I would go to religious instrutions in the morning and be taught evolution in my Biology class in the evening. There was no clash, no lawsuits and no animosity towards religion nor evolution ever erupted. It is said that evolution cannot be proven, I would beg to differ. If one takes a look into any College Freshman biology text there are tonnes of experiments that were undertaken in order to show that evolution is indeed a fact and CAN be illustrated (the one coming to mind being the evolution of Guppies undertaken by Dr. David Renzick of University of California). I completely agree with the fact that intelligent design and science should not even be in the same sentence! There is nothing scientific about an "intelligent designer"....if that was the case: "Who is this intelligent designer?" "What are the parameters which govern this designer?" "Can a hypothesis be formulated to prove such an intelligent designer?" NO NO NO. As far as I am concern, in terms of science, this whole notion of an intelligent designer is a load of crap (excuse the language). If the extreme right wants to force down the throats of students their notion of God..*cough* *cough* I mean intelligent designer, they should probably ask for a constitutional reform or maybe build a church next to their children's school. I have nothing against the concept of God, I myself believe in God though I will admit I am bias against religion and how it has twisted the notion of God to its believers. However, the sole purpose of science is to understand the PHYSICAL PHENOMENA of the earth and to a macro extent the universe. God is what one considers outside the bounds of sciences. Indeed, if one wishes to understand creationism, I am sure their are thousands of churches, temples, mosques and synagogues in America, not to mention several courses in Theology and Philosophy which one can take in College.
