Utilize critical thinking and reading skills when writing your responses. Here are some questions to guide your discussion – feel free to add additional lines of thought and inquiry as appropriate. When posting be sure to reference course materials including films, lectures and readings.
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- What were some of the impediments to Darwin presenting his ideas on evolution?
- Is intelligent design simply creationism repackaged? Why?
- Are beliefs in creationism/intelligent design as well as science/evolution mutually exclusive? In other words can someone believe in both evolution and intelligent design?
- The title of the film we viewed under the Course Materials is “War on Science” – do you believe that there is an actual war on science here? Why? What does it mean to have a war on science? Who is waging this war and how is it being contested?
- What should be taught in classroom and why? Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism and why? Should law impact this? (US Constitution Amendment I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably)
- What is science? What is objectivity? What is scientific objectivity?
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