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Nobel Laureates Frown on Curriculum Plans - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050916/ap_on_sc/evolution_debate_2

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http://news.yahoo.com/

The major problem with the Yahoo story is that it calls Intelligent Design a "theory" thus equating it with the Theory of Evolution.  It is merely an idea, belief or guess, but it is not a scientific theory because it provides no evidence, proposes no mechanism backed by evidence and no tests of it.  As such, the real tragedy is that it degrades the entire scientific process and its understanding, thus dumbing down America all the way from the President to little children in school.   That dumbing down of science is a big worry for America as it competes in the world in science and technology.  The competing countries teach the facts, the hypotheses, the tests of hypotheses, and the theories that result from that process, not the guesses and beliefs of a religious viewpoint.  As in the case of Katrina and New Orleans, America needs Intelligent Planning and Intelligent Action, not Intelligent Design!