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Intelligent Design gloves are off in Pennsylvania court case

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Eleven families have brought suit against the local school board of Dover High School. The Pennsylvania board decided that kids should be taught Intelligent Design in their science classes. The parents are arguing that Intelligent Design is synonymous with creation science. Basically, if you teach kids that the universe was designed by something intelligent, that has religious connotations. Unless you propose that the intelligent forms were white mice, and that earth was made to be a giant supercomputer to determine the question to "42."

The defense argues that evolution is merely "theory" and has flaws, gaps, etc., so why shouldn't the theory of intelligent design be taught alongside it?

Well. There are fossils. There are dinosaur skeletons. There is carbon dating. There is mounds of evidence that evolution is a viable theory. A scientific theory, if you will. To teach children that there is intelligence at work in the creation of the world is to cross a distinct line that our government has drawn: separation of church and state.

If I, as a religious person, do not want my children to believe that evolution is a viable theory, then I will tell them teach them what I believe. They don't need to be taught at school that there is an alternative theory to evolution. It's called religion, and it permeates our culture.

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