Bush Officially Endorses Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Schools

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Sounds reasonable.

The federal government should have nothing to do with the curriculum in the first place.

This is just his view point. He's not trying to set the curriculum.

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You're not a very good judge of what is reasonable.

I didn't say he won't try to mandate it. I said he isn't at the moment trying to mandate it, just by saying this.

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Intelligent Design is, basically, evolution with the phrase "God caused it" appended on to the end.

Uh, no.

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Here's a question that I don't recall ever getting answered by people in favor of teaching intelligent design: what exactly would you teach? The whole idea can be stated in, like, one minute flat, and there's no physical evidence, scientific tests, or anything that can be examined to expand upon the idea. As far as I can tell, all you could do is say "Intelligent design is another theory, and it says that God created the universe and everything in it" and then you'd be done, end of lesson.

Um, no. Intelligent design is about probabilities. It says nothing about who created the universe. It does not state that God created the universe. It could be an alien race as far as intelligent design is concerned.

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No, the theory doesn't get into God, and neither should the material. Intelligent design is not a counter-theory to evolution. It just examines probabilities and comes to the conclusion that evolution can not fairly be said to have happened through natural processes.

That's it. That's all you teach. You make no mention of God or theistic creationism whatsoever.