We Need To Teach Intelligent Design In Our Classrooms

I’ve been reading a lot about intelligent design, which is being pushed very hard by religious conversations who are uncomfortable with the idea that dinosaurs inhabited the earth before humans, and that the earth is more than 6,000 years old. Intelligent design says that evolution could not have happened without God, and that we should replace our biology text books with the book of Genesis.

I think that that is great. Science class would be way easier. The answer to every question is “God Did It.” I could totally get an A on that unit.

While we’re at it, we should see if we can’t challenge the theory of gravity. After all, gravity is a theory, not a fact. We cannot definitely prove that mass attracts other mass in a way that causes two objects to move towards each other, we can just observe that it always happens and come up with equations reflecting that behavior and then use those equations to create airplanes. But who’s to say that gravity isn’t such a confusing process that it could not have happened without God. Or that there’s no such thing as gravity at all, it’s just God making things fall downwards. It would make physics so much easier. Take a typical physics problem:

If an object of a mass of 500 kilograms is on top of a cliff with a height of 100 meters, and is thrown up in the air with a velocity of 20 meters per second, how long will it take for the object to hit the ground?

Answer: However long God decides it should take to fall.

Now of course, ignoring scientific truth in favor of biblical truth sort of gets in the way of actually developing things like the internal combustion engine and microchips. But I’m sure if the creationists get their way, and we teach scripture instead of science, pastors and preachers can develop new technologies way better than scientists and businessman ever did.