{"id":2343,"date":"2015-08-05T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2015-08-05T08:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:42:53","slug":"unintelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"Unintelligent Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lynn University in Boca Raton has a series of courses called Dialogues of Learning<\/a> that tackle the main topic of Belief and Reason. One of the courses offered in the Dialogues series is Unintelligent Design. The course description says:<\/p>\n

Ever since its original publication, the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection has been attacked by certain segments of society, largely on religious grounds. The most recent version of these attacks has been the invention of what is claimed by its proponents as an “alternative theory” called Intelligent Design. In this course we will study the scientific theory of Evolution, including how it has been expanded in the 150 years since Darwin first proposed it, and then compare it with the pseudoscientific idea of Intelligent Design. We will evaluate Intelligent Design in terms of its fitness as a scientific theory, and also analyze its arguments against naturalistic evolution. The goal of the course is to have students learn about a significant scientific theory, the difference between science and pseudoscience, and learn how to critically evaluate both scientific and non-scientific claims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskin isn’t happy about it<\/a>. Essentially, he doesn’t think intelligent design should be referred to as pseudoscience. Poor guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lynn University in Boca Raton has a series of courses called Dialogues of Learning that tackle the main topic of Belief and Reason. One of the courses offered in the Dialogues series is Unintelligent Design. 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