Bush Officially Endorses Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Schools

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Intelligent design advocates accept old earth dating methods, believe the fundamental things of Darwin's evolution theory to be true, etc., but contest that the earth is so complexly made that there is an intelligent designer.  This could be a god who created the first cell and stopped paying attention; it could be the Christian God; it could be a group of aliens.

Those who believe in theistic evolution, i.e. Catholic Church, could be classified as being part of the intelligent design category.

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KEmp, I don't really see how saying that our galaxy was created by aliens is religious doctrine.

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Saying that aliens created our galaxy is not a matter of faith; it is a theory because there is so little to go on, scientifically, to explain the origin of the universe.  It is as valid a theory as the one that says the universe just sort of came out of nowhere randomly.  Intelligent design says that there must be some sort of intelligent creator or initiator to explain the complexity of the world.  Unless you follow that by saying something like, "And the intelligent creator who did that was God, who is three persons in one god: The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit... by the way, Jesus Christ died on a cross to save you from your sins," it is not a religious doctrine.