The Intelligent Design (ID)movement Asserts That Life Forms Are Too

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The intelligent design (ID) movement asserts that life forms are too complex to have been formed by natural processes and must therefore have been created by a higher intelligence.Attempts have been made to teach ID as an alternative theory to Darwinian evolution in biology classes in several states in the United States; however,

• A) as a federal district judge ruled in a 2005 Pennsylvania case, ID violates the ground rules of science by invoking supernatural causation and making assertions that cannot be tested or falsified, and thus ID does not belong in a school's science curriculum.
• B) ID should be taught as a hypothesis of human origins, not a theory.
• C) ID should not be taught in schools, since it lacks a research and testing program and is unsupported by peer-reviewed research.
• D) the teaching of ID should be restricted to extracurricular activities, since it holds no scientific or cultural value.
• E) these attempts have always failed, because ID's proponents argue that it should be taught in place of Darwinian evolution.

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Educational Curriculum

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Classification Skills

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Multiple Intelligences

A theory proposing that individuals possess various forms of intelligence, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, and others, each representing different ways of processing information.

Conservation

The principle in cognitive development where a child learns that quantity, mass, and volume remain the same despite changes in form or appearance.