[mlc9852]

"Is it in our country's interest to keep kids ignorant?"

Can you explain how telling students that there may be intelligent design is keeping kids ignorant? No one proposed eliminating the teaching of the TOE. You are going a little overboard.

[Dimensio]

Can you explain how telling students that there may be intelligent design is keeping kids ignorant?

Telling children that intelligent design is science is lying.

[peyton randolph]

Can you explain how telling students that there may be intelligent design is keeping kids ignorant?

Well, it was a 'theory' that leeches were a medical cure for what ailed George Washington et al. Shall we insist that leeches be used in med school the same way as an alternative 'theory?' After all, it was good enough for the Father of Our Country.