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Intelligent Design Argumentative Analysis

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Earlier this month, a federal appeals court in Georgia heard arguments over whether a suburban Atlanta school district had the right to put stickers on biology textbooks describing evolution as a theory, not fact. A federal judge last January ordered the stickers removed.

In November, state education officials in Kansas adopted new classroom science standards that call the theory of evolution into question.

President Bush also weighed in on the issue of intelligent design recently, saying schools should present the concept when teaching about the origins of life.

In his ruling, Jones said that while intelligent design, or ID, arguments "may be true, a proposition on which the court takes no position, ID is not science. ' ' Among other
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In the book Dawn, written by Elie Wiesel, Elisha has many internal conflicts which he has to deal with before and after the killing of John Dawson. The value of innocent human life is questioned in this book and whether or not Elisha is ready to take away such a precious gift. Elisha is reluctant to kill a human being for the sole reason he is British and an enemy to Elisha and his group’s cause. Even though Elisha and his group agree that the British are the cause of the suffering of the Jews in Palestine, Elisha is reluctant to execute a person who isn’t proven to be guilty of a crime nor innocent; he is a complete stranger. The novel’s title gives the reader a symbolic clue as to what effect the execution will have on Elisha.

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What Darrow meant in his statement is using the Bible as an argument of why evolution shouldn’t be thought to the children in Tennessee schools doesn’t make sense because the Bible is about religion not science. The next argument Darrow makes is the law does not specify what can be taught but the law does say that you cannot teach anything that conflicts with the Bible. Darrow argues that not everyone who reads the Bible is going to have the same concept of the Bible. Everybody has their own understanding of the Bible and its meaning. Therefore people will have a different view of what teachings conflicts with the Bible.

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wildly and utterly impossible. " Pro-evolutionists started a worldwide boycott against the hearings. Many people believe that they are not related to monkeys and many claim that their old teachers were Christian and spoke out in class disagreeing with the science curriculum stating that human evolved from primates. The hearings confused the public and were “intended to mislead and were reflective of religious views, not science.” There were several differing opinions during the hearing and little agreement.

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Shockingly, the nonsensical argument laid out above seems to be the strongest case the intelligent design crowd seems to have in favor of their position. Another argument that the pro-ID crowd uses is that scientific consensuses have been wrong before, for example in regards to the cause of stomach ulcers (Source A). In the case, the idea that ulcers

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Tennessee passed a fundamentalist law forbidding the teaching of anything but creationism, and the American Civil Liberties Union financed a test case to prove the unconstitutionality of the law through the famous “Monkey Trial”. The law was deemed constitutional, signifying the triumph of the religious fundamentalists over the science of the cities (Garraty

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As our book states, in the 1970s, the children that resided in orphanages had to live in extremely depraved conditions due to lack of funding. They had no interaction with adults, other children, or even the outside world. They almost never left their cots which they slept on. These cots were also surrounded by sheets so they never were able to see other humans or the outside. The children in these orphanages that were never adopted never recovered from the years of deprivation and therefore, developed permanent cognitive defects (Cacioppo & Freberg, 2013).

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Joseph,             I liked your post as it was succinct, and that is this post’s biggest strength. You get right to the point and state your points without beating around the bush. The greatest weakness I see is the lack of supporting references. While I agree with your assessment that natural selection is limited and that the evolutionary theory’s dependence on this process is misplaced, I would disagree with your assertion as to why it is limited. According to DeWitt, “Blyth described natural selection in great detail, but described it as a conservative process and not a creative one.”

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