Thursday, April 28, 2005

Intelligent design: Who has designs on your students’ minds?

Intelligent design: Who has designs on your students’ minds?
(Nature)
Others, including Cordova himself, arrived at intelligent design from almost the opposite direction. Over a coffee earlier that day, he explains how intelligent design helped him resolve his own spiritual crisis five years ago. Since high school, Cordova had been a devout Christian, but as he studied science and engineering at George Mason, he found his faith was being eroded. “The critical thinking and precision of science began to really affect my ability to just believe something without any tangible evidence,” he says.

Indeed. Damn science, without which we’d live such wonderful, magical lives.

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