Slugger Moore’s Blog

1. Kiaros is the most opportunistic time and setting to take action or make an argument.

2.  When making an argument Kairos is important because it not only makes your argument relevant but it can also strengthen it.

3.  Page 43 Questions: “Evolution and Intelligent Design in Schools”

1. The urgency of this is issue has been made relevant because of its recent controversy with the media and public.

2. People of faith tend to side with either the teaching of both evolution and intelligent design or they favor the removal of evolution being taught in schools. However, those of science are for the teaching of evolution and against the teaching of intelligent design.

3. An inappropriate argument would be to denounce a person’s faith or belief to get your point across. It however, would not be out of line to state that evolution is based of hard evidence and fact while intelligent design is simply based off of faith.

4.  Atheism versus theism, or faith and science are strongly wrapped around in discussion with this argument because these are closely related to the debate of teaching evolution and intelligent design in school.

5. Government is a major power dynamic to this debate. State and federal government mostly have the power with this issue. The kids, who are being taught, unless they are 18, do not have any say or power with this issue.

6. Churches are a good venue for which the people of faith get their point across and then the churches may go to political debates. A good venue for this issue would be a state court or federal (Supreme Court) to debate this issue, which has been done before. The scientific side has a better position because they do have evidence to back their arguments up and the other side only has their faith.

7. The opposing half does have a louder voice simply because they have the churches to speak out for them while those of science have no church to represent them. Time wise though, evolution is louder because in this day in age more people are acceptant of the theory and more reluctant to the idea of teaching intelligent design in school.