Discuss “Do not accept evolution on faith alone; give ID a chance”

Over the last few weeks, Pennsylvania has received national media attention as the location of the Scopes Monkey Trial for the 21st century. A school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, has required that intelligent design, the claim that some components of living things are too complex to have arisen by random chance, be taught as an alternative to evolution. Unfortunately, in this case both sides have been espousing unscientific principles.

There?s a larger issue here, though. Opponents of intelligent design decry it because they see it as religion invading science and schools. Opponents of evolution feel that to say man arose through random chance means that man doesn?t matter. In either case, the issue is what role religious beliefs should play...