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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Intelligent Design is not 'irrelevant' to Young Earth Creationism because despite differences in mechanics, they both have the same central thesis (intelligent designer created to the universe and is the principle supernatural force behind overservable and testable phenomenon regarding the origins of the earth and the origins of species) by itself means little, but when you research the proponents of the ID movement, you find that when speaking of the movement in the United States, you find they generally share the same judeo-Christian background and motivation as those that favor YEC. They different sides to the same coin, both attempting to reconcile science with a faith...even a specific faith.

YEC, as I guess we can call it now, is so flawed it is dumb. ID at least has an outside chance of being real. That's why the latter is irrelevant to the former in the context we were discussing YEC. The context you've used here is just a given correlation. Nobody is disputing that. Irrelevant to the conversation we were having.

If you want to teach ID in schools, go ahead, but teaching it alongside evolution is critically flawed since there is nothing to teach; no experiments, theories, or concepts except for psuedo-science cloaked apologetics. Those belong in faith studies or religious studies classes (which definetely should be taught in schools).

What on earth gave you the idea I want to teach ID in schools and why do you feel I don't know how unscientific it is?