The intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist campaign that arose out of the previous Christian fundamentalist and evangelistic creation science movement in the United States that calls for broad social, academic and political changes derived from the notion of "intelligent design." Chief amongst its activities are a campaign to promote public awareness of this notion; the lobbying of policymakers to include its teaching in high schools; and legal action, either to defend such teaching or to remove barriers otherwise preventing it.The overall goal of the intelligent design movement is to "overthrow materialism" and atheism. They believe that society has suffered "devastating cultural consequences" from adopting materialism and that science is the cause of this decay into materialism since science seeks only natural explanations. Science is therefore atheistic, they claim. They believe that the theory of evolution implies that humans have no spiritual nature, no moral purpose, and no intrinsic meaning. The movement's proponents seek to "defeat [the] materialist world view" represented by the theory of evolution in favor of "a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."
To achieve their goal of defeating a materialistic world view, advocates of intelligent design take a two-pronged approach. Alongside the promotion of intelligent design, proponents also seek to "Teach the Controversy"; discredit evolution by emphasizing "flaws" in the theory of evolution, or "disagreements" within the scientific community and encourage teachers and students to explore non-scientific "alternatives" to evolution, or to "critically analyze" evolution and "the controversy". But the world's largest general scientific society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has stated that "There is no significant controversy within the scientific community about the validity of evolution." and that "Evolution is one of the most robust and widely accepted principles of modern science."
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"There is no significant controversy within the scientific community about the validity of evolution."
LOL...are they sure about that? It certainly seems to me that Darwinian evolution is controversial.
Obviously, there is no controversy in regard to the fact that there is empirical evidence supporting minor microevolutionary change, but the rest of the package is controversial as hell.
Have you heard about the meeting that is taking place this July?
If not, you might want to read the link I provided. There is certainly "controversy" over evolution even among "scientific elite".
Oh, I totally agree that evolution is controversial. In fact, in all honesty, I do not believe evolution is a valid explanation of how we came to be. I am a creationist. Did you read the whole article though (clicking on the More... link?). Have a great day Forthekids. :)
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