[DoughtyOne]

While I like what this looks like on paper, I'm not convinced it will help much. How can you teach intelligent design in a public school that can't even hang the ten commandments on it's walls? I believe this is a nobel effort, but wonder what the fed reaction will be.

[LiteKeeper]

Dittoes - Problem: it takes a certain level of intelligence to teach intelligent design (which I support - although, in my mind, it doesn't go far enough.)

[Bonaparte]

"How can you teach intelligent design in a public school that can't even hang the ten commandments on it's walls?"

Easily. The 10 Commandments are moral laws, wheras ID makes no reference at all to morality or to the character or intentions of the inferred designer. For all ID knows, the designer may have created the universe as an inside joke. It's far more rigorous than neo-Darwinism and bears almost no resemblance to creationism.

[stanz]

How can you teach intelligent design in a public school that can't even hang the ten commandments on it's walls?

My questions is, "How does one "teach" intelligent design at all?"

[keats5]

"How can you teach intelligent design in a public school that can't even hang the ten commandments on it's walls?"

You don't even touch religion. You teach science. You look for patterns, create and test hypotheses, and examine evidence. You question whether the evidence supports entire theories or partial theories, such as microevolution (adaptation) as opposed to macroevolution (speciation). Designed things (like airplanes) should be compared to other things to see if they have similar elements of design(patterns, complexity, unexpected order).

Those that believe in God should have the faith to trust good science. They are not opposites. If God is truth, science will bear Him out. Only people compartmentalize truth into subjects like science or religion. In reality, it's all a seamless web.