On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:11:09 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:02:13 -0400, Jim wrote:


Sorry fella. You cannot teach history without touching on religion.
Also, with few exceptions, the federal government has no jurisdiction
over what may or may not be taught in public schools.

Well, Intelligent Design is one of those exceptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmil...chool_District

Hmmm - interesting.

I found this quote from Kenneth Miller, the lead witness, very telling
and very similar to my own views:

1) "[i]t falsely undermines the scientific status of evolutionary
theory and gives students a false understanding of what theory
actually means." And 2) "as a person of faith who was blessed with two
daughters, who raised both of my daughters in the church, and had they
been given an education in which they were explicitly or implicitly
forced to choose between God and science, I would have been furious,
because I want my children to keep their religious faith."

Sounds good to me.