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[mlsoft]

harry...

I have to agree with you in part -- "intelligent design" is creationism given a different name. How can you take God out of creationism?? It is ludicrous to not call it "creationism", but it is even more ludicrous that we have made it necessary to drop any mention of God from Creationism or for that matter, Christmas.

mlsoft

[BullNBear52]

Tie score. Kansas 1 Pennsylvania 1. It depends on what section of the country you live in.

Personally I'd rather see I.D. introduced in another forum in schools starting at the high school level in a Philosophy Course. Then let the debate begin. It would get the kids to THINK!

Kansas school board redefines science
New standards question accuracy of evolutionary theory

Tuesday, November 8, 2005; Posted: 8:10 p.m. EST (01:10 GMT)

TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) -- At the risk of re-igniting the same heated nationwide debate it sparked six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.

The 6-4 vote was a victory for "intelligent design" advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.

Critics of the language charged that it was an attempt to inject God and creationism into public schools in violation of the separation of church and state.

All six of those who voted for the standards were Republicans. Two Republicans and two Democrats voted against them.