Now THIS I'm torn on: separate class for ID

[Qdrop]

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if it's a separate class, not taught as science...but rather philosophy....
i don't know if i have much of a problem with it.

i think it's complete bullshit...but as long as it's taught as philosophy, NOT as a religion....and the class includes a WIDE range of varying religious creation beliefs....i can see it as educational.

what say you?

[Schmeltz]

Why not teach it as a religion? That's all it really is.

[kaiser soze]

why not make it available for those interested?
if there are not enough attendees, cancel the class.

It could be left to the churches to teach this...keeping seperation of church and state

Politics are taught in school, why couldn't religion....just be objective and fair in covering many theological viewpoints ( as you said ), it wouldn't be difficult

[ASsman]

What is World Religion considered?

Buh, reading over the definition of Philosophy it's all "logic" this, "intellectual" that. Doesn't sound like religion to me.

[sam i am]

ID, IMO, belongs in a philosophy/relion/comparative theology class.

Public schools in the US are rarely allowed to teach this stuff because it comes in for so much controversy.

Teaching about the CONTROVERSY, however, is fair game, since it then becomes part of history (witness the recent teaching on the Clinton presidency).

Maybe that's been the gambit since the beginning : create enough controversy and debate that it becomes part of the national conciousness and is later considered "historical," thus backdooring it's way into "history" books so that young minds full of mush are sidestepped into ID....

How machiavellian....