During a round-table interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers, Bush declined to go into detail on his personal views of the origin of life. But he said students should learn about both theories, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported. "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."
This whole "we should teach different ideas" is retarded. There are ideas that life spawns from rotten meat. There are ideas that the US forced Japan to attack Pearl Harbor because of an oil embargo. There are ideas that the earth is hollow. The point is there are ideas for everything, and we don't teach them all. We have some criteria that concepts have to meet to be taught. In science classes, that criteria is the scientific method. I quote the Intelligent Design article on Wikipedia: Critics call ID religious dogma repackaged in an effort to return creationism into public school science classrooms and note that ID features notably as part of the campaign known as Teach the Controversy. The National Academy of Sciences and the National Center for Science Education assert that ID is not science, but creationism. While the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection has observable and repeatable facts to support it such as the process of mutations, gene flow, genetic drift, adaptation and speciation through natural selection, the "Intelligent Designer" in ID is neither observable nor repeatable. This violates the scientific requirement of falsifiability. ID violates Occam's Razor by postulating an entity or entities to explain something that may have a simpler and scientifically supportable explanation not involving unobservable help.
ID is *not* science. It should not be taught in a *science* class. Doing so undermines the entire point of science. Bush's complete misunderstanding of this is beyond excuse. -------------------
I am glad that my child is homeschooled. We teach EVOLUTION and only evolution with no qualms about it. I don't understand why these ignorant fools can't appreciate the unbelievable wonder and beauty of evolution. They stumble on the word THEORY. They somehow think that because we use the word THEORY in describing evolution, that it must be untested science without evidence. The problem is that these fools don't even begin to understand the most basic science - the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. Why would I want someone that lacks that fundamental understanding teaching science anyway? Creationist have their right to see the world the way they do, as much as Nancy Reagan had the right to plan state affairs based on astrology. That's fine. I just want them to leave me and mine alone. They scare me- the creationists more than the astrologers! CNN.com - Bush: Schools should teach 'intelligent design' - Aug 2, 2005 | 
