Actually, I have no desire to teach ID. I would like the freedom for it to come up and be discussed. You probably have no idea what it's like teaching evolution in the middle of the Bible belt! It was always touchy (and it wasn't the parents, it was the kids!)
susie
I don't have a problem with it being discussed. If kids are kept from discussing what comes up in the natural course of inquiry, in a school of all places, that's just wrong and that bothers me too. I just don't think ID or creationism should be taught as part of the curriculum in a science class, because it isn't science, as I said.
If it comes up in the natural course of discussion in a science class, sure, talk about it. But don't call it science.
Anyone who wants to censor speech is wrong to do it. But teaching that creationism is scientific is a lie, disingenuous at best, promoting ignorance at worst.