Monday, June 23, 2008

What a debate - Intelligent design and evolution

Australian TV telecast a program on a school that introduced "Intelligent Design" as part of their curriculum to teach biology. The court scene and the debate on whether it should be included, was so good .... I have never enjoyed anything on TV so much.
To cut a long story short (I strongly recommend that everyone watches the two part episode), one question to the Intelligent Design proponent - was - whether it is a science, since science is empirical in nature. He said yes it is and he asked them to observe the bacteria flagellum for 10,000 generations to see if it mutates and evolves since one of its feature according to him was intelligent design. When the Darwin proponent said that is not a good answer, this gentleman said has anyone tested the evolution process .. voila ...

I am not propagating Intelligent Design, but the way the debate progressed was so good ...........and it was a great learning for me