Should evolution be taught in schools?

[GrayMouser]

Originally posted by RÃ*an
You're perhaps putting a stronger reading on "recognized" than I am. I think that if scientists discovered a well-shaped arrowhead on Mars, their first thought would immediately be that it was "made", don't you? Now a conclusion at this point would be premature, IMO, but I DO think that in that scenario, a hypothesis of "created" would be the most logical one. Do you? Anyone else?

Yep, just like if they came across an organism their first thoughts would be "grown, not made"; artifacts and living things being very different.

BTW, Paley's "watch on the beach" depends on the analogy that living things and artifacts share certain characteristics that differentiate them from the surrounding environment which has been shaped by merely physical, purposeless processes.

Therefore, the argument is actually saying that while Life may be the product of a Creator, the Universe at large isn't.