Intelligent Design?
"Nearly two-thirds of respondents said public schools should teach creationism alongside evolution when teaching about the origins of life, according to a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press..."
As someone with bachelors and masters degrees in psychology and a minor in philosophy and religious studies, I find this discussion interesting. My education leads me to an understanding that science and religion sit on two ends of a continuum with philosophy in the middle. So in my opinion, if people really want to have intelligent design and creationism taught in school, then they should agree to start with a requirement that all students have a complete education in philosophy first and then religious studies. But the danger in this would be that they would then need to teach about all religions, not just fundamental protestant Christianity...and that would definitely cause a ruckus.
Read more about the Pew poll... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/national/31religion.html (requires free registration)
John Brandt
