Bush Officially Endorses Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Schools

[KEmperor]

Hahaha, this part really made me laugh:

"You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature."

[KEmperor]

Intelligent design is a nice little compromise way for people to accept evolution and still have faith in their creation myths.  Which is certainly a step foward from those who take such things literally, which leads them to believe totally ridiculous things like the Earth only being 6000 years old.

Regardless, it is a religious doctrine, and should only be taught by those organizations that are religious in nature.  As Al said, this is a debate about cause, not what has actually happened.  Those who believe in intelligent design do not deny that evolutionary change has happened.  Evolutionary theory is a scientific theory and should be taught in science class.  Intelligent design is a religious theory and should be taught in religion class.  It is the job of the church to have religious classes, not the secular authorities.

[KEmperor]

Tredrick gave the same answer I would have.