Friday, March 24, 2006
"Darwin in Dover, PA," and metaphysics in high school
The April First Things includes a trenchant, short piece (still available only in paper), by my colleague Robert Miller, on what "Intelligent Design" is and is not. Check it out. In addition to explaining why "Intelligent Design" is not science (and therefore should not be advanced in "science" courses), it recommends as follows: "I think public high schools ought to offer, at the senior level, a course in philosophy, including metaphysics. The texts should include Aristotle and Aquinas on arguments for the existence of God but also criticisms of such arguments by Hume and Kant, as well as some contemporary philosophy of religion. This would negate the impression, perhaps created in science classes, that science explains everything there is to explain about the universe."
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2006/03/darwin_in_dover.html