Private School Students Share Their Experience Learning About Intelligent Design

At Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, we love connecting teachers and students with ID resources and encouraging them to follow the evidence wherever it leads. On today’s ID The Future, you’ll hear from a group of 10th grade biology students at a private school in North Carolina as they share their experience of learning about the evidence for intelligent design. Their teacher is a graduate of our CSC summer seminar program, where she learned in depth about the scientific evidence for intelligent design. Inspired to bring what she learned to her students, she used the Discovering Intelligent Design textbook with her 10th grade science class to offer a more complete and compelling biology course.

In this conversation with host Kate Kavanaugh, the teacher describes how she incorporates intelligent design into her biology curriculum. After an initial crash course introducing the basics of ID, she offers concepts like complex specified information (CSI) and irreducible complexity into class discussions on DNA and biochemistry. “How can we have information come about,” she asks her students, “without an intelligent agent?” As they learn the truth about the fossil record and the evidence for the fine-tuning of our planet and universe for complex life, some students are surprised to discover a strong and serious case for intelligent design in nature: “There was a lot of evidence on every page supporting ID,” says one student, “which helped me understand the facts behind the claims, and it also gave evidence to show why evolution is not the answer…” Students also share some arguments from their final class paper after being asked to research and compare the theories of intelligent design and evolution and decide which theory best explains the origin of life and the universe.

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