You shouldn’t expect a debate on Intelligent Design in a Biology course. You might find it in another course though. Do some course shopping. Sometimes certain teachers are better at letting students learn by debate. Do some teacher shopping.
I don’t expect a debate. Frankly the topic is beyond the scope of any undergraduate level course. But the parade of lame attempts to “show” us that everything is attributable to evolution, and that any talk of “intelligent design” is just superstitious nonsense, is annoying.
The latest is an idiotic project in lab, consisting of picking a bunch of bacteria from a list and using an online service to plug in the nucleotide sequences from their 16S rRNA and have a phylogram magically pop out. Then we get to answer a series of questions designed to inevitably lead us to “realize” that our phylogram proves everything came from evolution. We’re not supposed to point out that you could play the same kind of game with operating system code from information processing devices from the late 1960s to the present and ranging from $2 handheld calculators to the most sophisticated and powerful computers, and get a “phylogram” showing how they all descended from a common ancestor.