Intelligent design belongs in Church not Biology class.

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I've always been puzzled about the contention that theories of "intelligent design" are somehow absent from public schools.  They're not.  They are taught in classes on Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Literature, Mythology, Anthropology, and other subjects too.  I have also heard glancing reference made to intelligent design theory in public university science classes I took as an undergrad.  That it's generally avoided in science classes has more to do, I'd guess, with the factor that it's not really a testable hypothesis; it can't be empirically verified like other hypotheses are verified by experiment.  We can't push it into the realm of the empirical by either inferences based on mathematics or on holes in our current state of knowledge.  Astronomically unlikely probabilities really don't prove anything, because astronomically improbable things do happen from time to time.  And the "God of the gaps" approach tends to lose ground over time as more gaps in our knowledge are actually filled in.  The "intelligent design" theory, however it may be construed, is really either a philosophical position or a matter of faith, and in those capacities, it's well-represented in American public schools.