Losing the Scopes Trial - Majority Rules for Anti-Sense

What is the social construct of intelligent design, and how does it differ from the construct of conservative sociobiology?

Intelligent design is a ploy of christian fundamentalists. Sociobiology - within which the BrooklynDodger places racial theories of intelligence - is a ploy of libertarian conservatives. In each case, ployers argue that the society we live in is the product of the natural or supernatural world.

Thus, inequality, war, racial subjugation, domination of women - you name it - are the way it is. For the fundamentalists, oppression is the will of their Deity, and maybe sinful to change. For the sociobiologists, oppression is certainly not the fault of the ruling class, and is dangerous to change because change requires over riding the workings of natural processes. There's even a cross over, where the Deity made the raw materials, and of course the natural processes, and the rest is history. And, if the Deity didn't like what the Deity saw, the Deity would fix it and didn't take the trouble.

The bright side of the sociobiology debate is that there are competing paradigms in evolutionary and population biology. People aren't ants or baboons. Society has already evolved beyond the pure prisoner's dilemma, war of all against all model, and can move forward if discourse can overcome ideology masquerading as science [sociobiology].

Now on to the issue at hand.

It shouldn't be a shock that it's 50-50 on intelligent design among Detroit news internet readers. Evolution [by natural selection] garners less than 50% approval in national polling, so it's actually doing better in this venue.

This is one of the issues where unelected professors and judges [other than Scalia, who is only a thug] are telling the majority what the schools can tell their kids.

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Evolution battle grows in schools
Michigan districts debate whether to teach intelligent design; critics call it disguised religion.

By Kim Kozlowski / The Detroit News


Jeff Conner knew he had to talk to school administrators when he learned his daughter was shown a video in science class that said evolutionary researchers were not scientists, and when she was assigned an essay about her beliefs on evolution and creation.
At his daughter's middle school in Gull Lake, near Kalamazoo, two seventh-grade science instructors were teaching intelligent design -- a belief that the complexity of the universe is evidence of an intelligent cause behind it

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Detroit News CyberSurvey results
Evolutionary science in school
Should intelligent design be taught as a scientific theory in public schools?
Yes
52.81%
No
47.19%