Bush Officially Endorses Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Schools

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Question: what *exactly* is Intelligent Design?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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.

Ah, O.K...
I don't really see the problem with that; nothing wrong with disputes over what caused things to happen.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

then why not save a step, and say that the origin of the galaxy is unanswerable?

Because, up to a point, it isn't... it's pretty much known how the galaxy, the universe and all that came into being; as always the problem is what caused that to happen.