Over at Beliefnet.com, guest author Gordon J. Glover provides an interesting rationale for keeping intelligent design creationism out of science classrooms. By Glover's reasoning, if we asked school boards who support including IDC to teach pseudo-archeology - the idea that extraterrestrial aliens have significantly altered human history - those same school boards would howl to high heaven in protest.
Glover equates IDC activists to the extraterrestrial "hardcore fanatics," the ones who "spend their summer vacations dressed up as aliens in Roswell NM." He notes that these pseudo-archeologists waste no time in crediting alien lifeforms with any phenomena we don't yet understand fully. " . . sound familiar?", asks Glover.
We don't have to grant UFOlogists the "academic freedom" to discuss the "strengths and weaknesses" of mainstream archaeology in the classroom. Nor do we allow pro-alien teachers to preach their UFO gospel to our children under the guise of science.
Remember that this article is running at Beliefnet.com, and Glover doesn't hesitate to stand up for his faith in God. But in closing, Glover notes (with bolding by me) that
What I disagree with, however, is that plugging the Creator into our biological knowledge gaps constitutes responsible science. And if we open the classroom door to intelligent design, what's to stop alien intervention from walking through it?
Go read the article, which had me giggling at the all-too-apt analogy from Glover. Meanwhile, enjoy a YouTube -
posted by Cheryl Shepherd-Adams
