[laredo44]

You: I think the general concept of intelligent design ought to be part of a science curriculum, because if it's taught in a scientific way it can shed a lot of light on things.

Me: Like what?

You: Like how to go about becoming an intelligent designer.

Why would you think that isn't being done now? The are hundreds, probably thousands of courses on design being taught in science curriculums throughout the world. Whole fields of study, e.g., ergonomics, are devoted to it. Do you imagine the chemists at DuPont were randomly combining elements and compounds when they came up with Teflon? Do you imagine the computer scientists at Intel are using weegie boards to design their next generation of chips?

[GovernmentShrinker]

They are thinking small. They are not thinking about designing worlds.