I was reading a few blogs and links today, and I came across this post of a friend of a friend. Instead of cluttering up his blog with comments that might spur arguments, I’ll post my comments here and maybe they will visit and comment here via trackback links.

Anyway, “intelligent design” or creationism, or whatever you want to call it this week, shouldn’t be taught in public schools. I don’t think it should even be brought up as an alternate theory to what happened. Giving it this much credit basically confuses people with everything we have been able to prove with science.

Intelligent design basically tells us the fossil record has been faked and that all those old species we’ve seen die off, well that never happened.

Intelligent design attempts to discredit the scientific proof we have that our DNA is closely related to that of other animals. Intelligent design dismisses this as hogwash.

I have even read a quote attributed to a former Pope quoted as saying “Evolution and the Bible do not cancel eachother out”.

This isn’t about who is right or wrong, or who beleives in God or who doesn’t. This is about changing how we teach our kids, who by the way already trail the world in Science in Math, a muddied watered down version of science. Even by saying “these events might have been set into motion by a higher being” shouldn’t be part of the course. Sure, we can’t prove that this didn’t happen, but science is about teaching what we can prove. Evolution has been studied and proved through numerous experiments and studies. Examination of the fossil record, watching the species on the Galapagos Islands, these are things that have been repeated and proven.

Now if a private religious school wants to teach Creationism, they have that right. I do not think a public school should be entering into a debate over religion. That’s all Intelligent Design/Creationism is, an attempt to backdoor religion into the public schools in violation of the seperation of church and state.

This shouldn’t be about Democrats or Republican ideology, this should be about teaching our kids Science the best we can so they can compete in the global arena. We don’t need to handicap them any further than we already have by teaching them non-science in science class.