Not much of a surprise, unless you consider that Bush is allegedly my president as well as president to the Christian-right mouth-breathers. Religious indoctrination shouldn't replace science, in publicly financed public schools especially. Can we impeach Bush for being a denizen of a previous century? Our founding fathers would plotz if they knew the current President was a theocrat more than a politician. Bush endorses 'intelligent design':
WASHINGTON -- President Bush waded into the debate over evolution and ''intelligent design“ yesterday, saying schools should teach both theories on the creation and complexity of life.In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with a small group of reporters, Bush essentially endorsed efforts by Christian conservatives to give intelligent design equal standing with the theory of evolution in the nation's schools.
... The National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have both concluded that there is no scientific basis for intelligent design and oppose its inclusion in school science classes.
''The claim that equity demands balanced treatment of evolutionary theory and special creation in science classrooms reflects a misunderstanding of what science is and how it is conducted,” the academy said in a 1999 assessment. ''Creationism, intelligent design, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life or of species are not science because they are not testable by the methods of science.“
For more on intelligent design, see here, here, here, here, and especially H. Allen Orr's New Yorker article,here.
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