In a majority of households in America children are taught from an early age, from going to church, that God created humans. The Holy Bible states, “… God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Gen.1:27). But is that accurate? Did a Supreme Being produce humans and all life on Earth? Or did we evolve over time from a single-celled organism? These are the types of questions that scholars, scientists, and teachers have been trying answer to for the last 150 years. As a result, the debate over which method should be taught in public schools rises, do they teach Creationism, Darwinism, or Intelligent Design? The debate had fueled lawsuits, both for and against, teaching of a certain theories, with the most recent addition being Intelligent Design.
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Intelligent Design is further explained by The Discovery Institute and The Center for Science and Culture as “…simply an effort to empirically detect whether the “apparent design” in nature acknowledged by virtually all biologists is genuine design (the product of an intelligent cause) or is simply the product of an undirected process such as natural selection acting on random variations.” Although some people may see the similarity to Creationism, proponents for ID deny any connections between the
Intelligent Design is further explained by The Discovery Institute and The Center for Science and Culture as “…simply an effort to empirically detect whether the “apparent design” in nature acknowledged by virtually all biologists is genuine design (the product of an intelligent cause) or is simply the product of an undirected process such as natural selection acting on random variations.” Although some people may see the similarity to Creationism, proponents for ID deny any connections between the