Intelligently Designing a Course in Intelligent Design

5 Pages Posted: 23 Feb 2010

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Arnold H. Loewy

Texas Tech University School of Law

Date Written: February 22, 2010

Abstract

Intelligent Design is consistent with creationism or evolution. Evolution (the opposite of creationism) could have occurred with or without an intelligent designer. The opposite of intelligent design is atheism. A course that explores the probabilities of intelligent design and atheism, indoctrinating neither but exploring and testing on both neither favors nor disfavors religion, and thus is constitutional. It is wise to teach such a course in the senior year of high school because it will teach students to think.

Keywords: Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution, Atheism, Constitutional Law, First Amendment

JEL Classification: K10

Suggested Citation

Loewy, Arnold H., Intelligently Designing a Course in Intelligent Design (February 22, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1557222 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1557222

Arnold H. Loewy (Contact Author)

Texas Tech University School of Law ( email )

1802 Hartford
Lubbock, TX 79409
United States

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