MISLABELING, MISCALCULATING, AND MISUNDERSTANDING: THE SCIENTIFI COMMUNITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN

摘要

Today many of the science classrooms in the United States, are troubled; teachers are reluctant to teach what the curriculum requires; students are stressed between academic expectations and the religious commitments of family and church. The public media thrive on the controversy and the public discourse on the question of intelligent design is compromised by the deep "innocence" of the public both about science and about religion. If the scientific community is going to most constructively engage in the resolution of these issues, it will need to avoid better three errors that have tended to mark its response to the intelligent design movement: mislabeling, miscalculating, and misunderstanding.