[Nextrush]

The ID issue and our liberal newspapers (Daily Rectum,
York Disgrace, York Sunday Blues) have helped propel their
campaign. My view is in favor of freedom since some scientists see intelligent design as legitimate their
views should be in science class. Before the Supreme
Court decision in 1987 creationism was part of science
classes and even mentioned in the public school I attended in this area in the 70's. I'm not here to impose religion
but I demand freedom and not a dogmatic attachment to one
scientific idea. You are entitled to believe that evolution
is truth but don't try to impose it on others.

[VadeRetro]

My view is in favor of freedom since some scientists see intelligent design as legitimate their views should be in science class.

The controversy is all outside of science and thus doesn't belong in science class.

Before the Supreme Court decision in 1987 creationism was part of science classes ...

In a few backward areas. Anyway, that was wrong and it got fixed for the better.

You are entitled to believe that evolution is truth but don't try to impose it on others.

You are entitled to ignore the truth in your personal life but don't try to teach your ignorance as science in science class.

[Right Wing Professor]

My view is in favor of freedom since some scientists see intelligent design as legitimate their views should be in science class

Which is why you want the school board to impose it on your science teachers.

Seems to me that instead of unifying social and economic conservatives behind an agenda of frugality, the DSB went off on a Christian fundamentalist crusade, thus endangering the entire conservative agenda, sticking the district with large legal bills, and making y'all a laughing stock. If your taxes go up, you richly deserve it.

[dmz]

Here's where we probably part company.

I'm all for ID being discussed, just not in a class devoted to the natural sciences. I think ID is currently in the realm of philosophy, and given that was my college major - in the '70s, I don't say that as a knock at all.

I'd even go so far as to suggest that more than a few of things we refer to now as science started out as philosophy, and became science as the philosophical position was tested with stuff from the material world.

As it stands now, just because Behe is a scientist, and he examined some natural processes and structures in his book, does not necessarily make his position on ID "science". It may yet get there (or not), but until it does, why is it a problem to study it in its natural environment (philosophy)?

Again, JMO.

[Dimensio]

My view is in favor of freedom since some scientists see intelligent design as legitimate their views should be in science class.

"Some scientists" see Islam as "legitimate". Should their views be in science class?

[shuckmaster]

You are entitled to believe that evolution is truth but don't try to impose it on others.

Biology is an elective. No one is trying to impose science class on you but if you take a science class expect to learn science and not myth disguised as charlatan pseudo science.