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Originally Posted by kermitology

I personally don't see that big of a deal with ID being taught at the same time as evolution.

Because ID is not science and it's not a theory. By that argument we should teach every religion's creation theory along side evolution, including the flying spaghetti monster's version.

Teach it where it belongs, in a social or history class.

I'd prefer that the God context just be ignored though. Suffice it to say that things adapt, mostly based on environment. Whether or not it's God's will is irrelevant.

That's the thing though ID doesn't say anything about that, ID proposes that the evidence demonstrates (which it doesn't) things were designed, not that they adapt.

But if you force anything that has religious backing out of the schools, then you inevitably end up removing a lot of literature from schools at the same time. Remember that so much of classical and even contemporary literature has it's roots in Christianity.

I don't think most people would want to remove anything regarding religion from schools; Christianity has dominated western culture for a huge amount of time. It's a matter of education vs. indoctrination. Teaching about different religions' creation myths is very different than taking one (simply because it is the dominant religion of the area) and putting it on the same scientific plane as evolution.