Judgement Day Intelligent Design On Trial Summary

The NOVA program, “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial”, features the town of Dover, Pennsylvania, which made headlines when Bill Buckingham, who was a member of the Dover Area School Board, made a request to introduce a new textbook into the school’s science curriculum that taught intelligent design.
First of all, intelligent design claims that intelligent causes are necessary to explain the complexity-rich structures of the life surrounding us and it harbors on the idea of irreducible complexity. Irreducible complexity states how a single system is composed of several well-matched interacting parts that contribute to a basic function, and removal of any one of the parts causes the system to not work properly. Believers of intelligent design think that some biological aspects are too complicated to have evolved on their
After a negative vote from the board to adopt the book, Buckingham and his committee drafted a statement that would be required for all biology teachers to read before they taught any coursework that involved evolution. This statement spoke of the gaps and problems that existed in Darwin’s theory, it also let the students know that copies of the book “Of Pandas and People” would be available if they were interested in understanding intelligent design.
This sparked a mass of controversy. The proposal from Buckingham raised an eyebrow to whether intelligent design should be taught in science classrooms as an alternative to evolution. Personally, I believe intelligent design can be mentioned in the classroom in a comparative sense, but the approach and delivery is what is significant. In the science classroom, it is important for students to learn about Darwin and the theory of evolution, but nothing should be introduced in a persuasive or derogatory manner because the school is meant to educate and not