you pretty much know how i feel about this issue as we've hashed it out before, but i just don't see the problem with teaching two different view points.
Consider listening to this TAL show (6/3/05 "Godless America") discussing the separation of church and state. i found it interesting, especially julia sweeney's story that led her to believe there is no God.
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The problem doesn't stem from an issue of teaching two viewpoints. The problem comes from having a science class and not teaching a scientific theory. While I'm sure there are studies out there that disprove evolution and I'm sure those studies could be formulated into a theory and then taught in school, but that's not what intelligent design or creationism are. These two attempts at alternatives to evolution don't really explain the origin of a species, they merely point at the bible and say "here's the answer". Well I'm sorry but that's just not good enough. Again, I don't support the teaching of one theory as fact, but it isn't taught that way. Evolution, like any topic I learned in science was always taught with the side note that any of this could be proved incorrect by the next discovery. That's what makes science such an interesting field of adventure. We have yet to find all of the species that live and exist today, so it isn't unheard of to think that current leading theories could be wrong, but at the same time, competing theories like intelligent design really don't have a solid scientific basis. I'll be listening to that TAL show, but I just want to add that this issue is a good example of why religious folks lose arguments about basic beliefs and values. Instead of using the current system to show their point of view as right or possible, they try to disguise that it's something besides another interpretation of the bible. The reason why that judge had to rule against intelligent design was because it didn't teach a set of facts, it taught a belief in a religious view. That's just not science, sorry.
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