[RJCogburn]

"alternative science"....now there is a strange term. Science is objective, going whereever the data lead. What can 'alternative' possibly mean?

"The concept of intelligent design was crafted specifically to get around legal prohibitions against teaching religion in public schools,"

Well, of course. Evolution should be taught as theory rather than fact, but intelligent design by whatever name should be left to religious training.

[Just mythoughts]

Your own words contradict themselves.... "Science is objective going whereever the data lead." The data does in fact tell of a "CREATOR", it is man that lacks intelligent design by preaching a theory which cannot be proven as fact.

[Raymond Hendrix]

What if the evidence points to inteligent design? Should "science" lie to the kids about the evidence or pretend that there is a materialistic explanation when there isn't one?

The Blind Atheist

[DannyTN]

"but intelligent design by whatever name should be left to religious training. "

Why? If intelligent design fits the data, why not allow it as a hypothesis?