Saturday, April 26, 2008

Crash this poll

I know how you lot all like this sort of thing - Do you think the theory of Intelligent Design should be taught in our education system? (scroll down, and it's on the left hand side of the page).

It is, of course, a flawed question because a theory requires some sort of evidence by which it can be tested, otherwise it is a hypothesis. By all means tell children that some people believe the world was created by Jehovah, but also tell them that equally others think it was Allah, Ymir, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and any number of other deities, and also that there is no evidence for any of them.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the Flying Spaghetti monster.

Anonymous Me said...

Wow, 98.5% No.