[wideawake]

Has the President ever even said a word about ID?

[slowhand520]

I don't think so but anything remotely Christian is considered extreme right wing or Evangelical right. So that automatically must mean President Bush. These soulless communists can't even get the Neo-Con thing right. For Neil Young to call ID a Neocon thing just shows he didn't get the memo. To the left Neocon is code for "Jew". But they are the tolerant ones. I do believe that Bush's fly paper theory works perfectly here. Look how many commies they gathered at that gala.

[r9etb]

Has the President ever even said a word about ID?

He said something about it, in passing, within the past couple of months. I don't recall the exact details.

Be that as it may, what's interesting to me is how things like this tend to show how very thin the line is between scientific questions and completely non-scientific leftist political and religious (or atheist) agendas.

One begins to wonder when our esteemed FReeper evolutionists will admit that they're scratching at leftist fleas.

(FWIW, I find many of the religious folks on the other side of the debate to be uncomfortably itchy as well....)

[Tim Long]

Has the President ever even said a word about ID?

Yes, he basically endorsed it as a means to encourage exposure to different theories.

[Dimensio]

Yes. When asked about the subject, he was quoted as saying ""I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought, [...] You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."

This suggests that he doesn't actually understand the issue from a scientific context (wherein ID proponents are actively attempting to redefine science because ID is not science).

He is also quoted as saying "the verdict is still out on how God created the earth" when speaking of evolution, which suggests that he's not terribly educated on what exactly evolution is (as evolution has nothing whatsoever to do with how the earth itself came to exist).

He hasn't said too terribly much more than that, at least not that I've found.

Now I await claims that I'm a liberal Bush-basher simply because I correctly point out that Bush isn't a scientist.