[colorado tanker]

Bush declined to state his personal views on "intelligent design"

The headline states the opposite of what the President said. Whodda thought the MSM could do that???

I don't think ID should be taught as science. While I'm intrigued by aspects of it, I see virtually no evidence developed to support the theory at present.

OTOH, there is a debate raging in the country, as evidenced by the huge number of threads containing hundred and even thousands of posts in this forum. It seems to me that high school students at some point in the curriculum ought to be informed of the controversy.

[PatrickHenry]

It seems to me that high school students at some point in the curriculum ought to be informed of the controversy.

I'm confident that they already are. They probably all have internet access. The existence of all those creationist websites isn't exactly a secret. They also have access to "information" about UFOs, crop circles, spoon-bending, haunted houses, etc.

[HostileTerritory]

The headline states the opposite of what the President said. Whodda thought the MSM could do that???

The current debate is not whether everyone in America should believe in Creationism/Intelligent Design. ID advocates know that's too much of a reach. The debate is whether you support or oppose teaching Creationism/Intelligent Design in the classroom, and in that case, Bush has come out on the "support" side. There's no scientific or pedagogical reason to support Intelligent Design over any other creation story, and there are plenty of reasons not to support it, so if you make an argument to put it in the classroom, you're either allied with the ID campaign or an ill-informed dupe.