Wednesday, December 28, 2005
It's Nice To Be Validated
James Q. Wilson had a piece in the WSJ Monday of Intelligent Design. He makes some of the same points I have made here in recent weeks:
- "The other meaning of theory is the popular and not the scientific one. People use 'theory' when they mean a guess, a faith or an idea."
- "The theory of evolution has not been proved as fully as the theory of gravity."
- "What schools should do is teach evolution emphasizing both its successes and its still unexplained limitations."
Wilson, in general has too much faith in evolution and is too demeaning of the ID proponents, but his essential thoughts on the matter I find quite agreeable and validating since I was there a week or two earlier. (Yes, I am bragging).
The issue here is not one of science -- it is one of too much faith in science and of courts that have gone too far in limiting public discourse regarding religion. The solutions, if such are possible, do not lie on the classroom (Well, save for teaching evolution's weaknesses) but in returning our society to a more balanced view of the roles of both science and religion.
