Well thank God that USA Today has decided to use their journalistic skills to shed some light on this decisive debate.
Because intelligent design is a new theory, we, like Kansas' board, don't think students should be required to learn it. But we do think teachers should be free to discuss such alternatives if they are based upon scientific evidence, not scriptural texts.
Well then the question is what "scientific evidence" is ID based on? I have read reams of information written and disseminated by the Creationists/Id crowd. There is very little science in it and most of it has to do with their disagreement with how the age of rocks in determined. The majority of the science is their "discovery" that there are gaps in the fossil record. No shit? Here is another news bulletin. There are stars and galaxies that we have not discovered yet!
Look the reality is that the majority of the evidence that we discover points in the direction that Darwin pointed to so many years ago. If there is evidence which seems contradictory we usually find that it was misidentified. There is no compelling alternative to Evolution. It just does not exist. Deal with it!
