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Originally Posted by Downthestretch55
I'm guessing that when Pgardn sees this, he'll have something to say.
My son, a post doctoral developmental biologist is plenty p i s s e d, and rightly so.
Do we see a previously "hidden agenda" now revealed?
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I'd say this takes the cake, but of course, it's not surprising.
The most amazing phrase ever invented is "intelligent design," coined by the Discovery Institute, a neo-conservative think tank which says ID is a "scientific theory that is on equal with, or superior to, evolution theory."
You, I and the American people (phrase courtesy of Bob Dole) all know what is true. George Bush, (surprise!) believes Intelligent Design should be taught in schools.
I think it's very reasonable for people to have their beliefs re evolution or creation but these are topics for church or home and certainly Intelligent Design is not a science and has no place in schools.
When the Church gets it's fingers into policy; be it forcing creationism onto our children or condemning stem cell research as "unethical" as it did this week, that's bad stuff.
But you cannot easily keep religion out of politics or our schools. The lure is too strong and the payoff is too high. After all, they burned Galileo for not condemning Copernicus and having the stones to say that yes, indeed, the world is not flat.