False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
–Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
Ironic that Darwin, of all people, should have stated this. We are now nearly 150 years on from the publication of Darwin’s theory of evolution in The Origin of Species. But despite this, the false views, supported only by false evidence, presented by proponents of Intelligent Design continue to do injury to science. However, the harm is great, as our young students continue to be caught in the middle where they suffer the consequences of religion…again. To starve them of the education that they and we are worthy of is a sin of the most unholy kind. I only hope that as time goes on the road to truth does, in fact, open up to the minds of all people.
