Kentucky teachers resist teaching Intelligent Design in the classroom. Apparently Kentucky has some pretty good teachers!

Jack Ousley is a Paintsville High School science teacher. He's also a Southern Baptist deacon. He believes that God created the heavens and the earth. But he also believes in evolution.

When he teaches a biology class, "I teach that things evolve, change over time," Ousley said.

I love it when my pre-conceived notions get shaken up. I will admit that I would have assumed that the above gentleman would be more apt to embrace the teaching of Intelligent Design then to reject it. I humbly stand corrected.

Teachers are hesitant to stray too far from mainstream scientific teachings, even though Gov. Ernie Fletcher is urging them to tell their students about the "self-evident truth" of intelligent design, the idea that a Supreme Being has guided the development of life on earth.

I have to take umbrage with this term "self evident". The term "self evident" is a very personal statement. To assume that my "self' reveals the same truth as your "self" is extremely arrogant. And what makes the belief that there is a supreme being that created everything in our universe "self evident"? It is clear that people living in the Eastern part of our planet do not have the same sense of revealed truth that many westerners have.

It is this subjective view of the truth that I find so frustrating when talking to very religious people. I know that you truly feel that you are right. But that does not make you right. If it were true that everybody who believes in something wholeheartedly were correct then we would all be right! Every one of us would have discovered the truth! But that is not possible. Truth cannot be individual. Either something is true or it is not true. If there is indeed a truth to be known then, by definition, there are many religions and philosophies based on a falsehood.

So the obvious question becomes do you believe the truth? Or do you believe a lie?