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Originally Posted by Plethon
They don't want to posit a possibility that there are some people who think that, for example, there was evolution guided by God.
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There are plenty of people who believe in guided evolution. Even evolutionists who say they don't believe in God sometimes believe that way, in an aristotelian fashion where everything has a purpose.
But from the point of view of the stricter theory of evolution, there is no such concept of guidance. Nature is variation at random - in the modern variant this is
mutations happen at random - and the best adapted survive. No purpose, no guidance or anything of the sort is needed to explain nature - or so they say. And that's exactly the reason why there's no concept of guidance in the theory of evolution: Ockham's razor makes the God assumption superfluous. The bottom line is that the theory of evolution doesn't even evaluate the question of God's existence.
Back on the question: I think that a ban of this sort is bound to create anti-spiritual sentiment, simply because it's basically a ban on an existential question. It will take effect also outside biology class.