Reply #140: I feel that I've worded my view poorly

[Finding Rawls]

I did not intend to say, nor do I think I did, that "ID for sure should be" taught in schools. This all started with someone saying that the Supreme Court should, and possesed the right,to ban the teaching of ID in public schools. I strongly disagree with both of these suggestions. The Supreme Court should not, and I don't believe has the power to, ban the teaching of ID in public schools.

I said that not every opinion will make its way into schools curriculums . I believe that is true. Not every crackpot idea that some person has will make its way, or should make its way, into the school curriculum. This is not a statement that is incompatible with the marketplace of ideas. The marketplace of ideas is the totality of all discussion. Adults take the most active role in this marketplace. Ideas that make their way to the forefront of the marketplace of ideas are, in my mind, in possession of some degree of respect by others. If their are enough adults in a local community to force the idea of ID into their schools curriculum, then its justified. This allows those ideas that are currently victorious in teh marketplace of ideas to be taught.

And I don't have any opinion on where it should be taught. I'm not a teacher and don't have enough background in the area. I think we're becoming a little strict, however, with regards to the content of a grade school or high school curriculum. Who's to say that an idea, not scientific in nature, can't be introduced in a science class to broaden the scope of its students thought.