The American Thinker: Why ID should be Taught.

The article, by Jonah Cohen, can be found here. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4761

My two cents worth is as follows.

Of course Intelligent Design should be taught and argued and evaluated. The question on the table is WHERE that ought to take place. Even Cohen says perhaps not in biology classes, but that is precisely the debate. Few folks have a problem with ID in the philosophy class. Hell, it's ALREADY THERE!

Even if one concedes that ID is a scientific theory, the place to begin the process of evaluation is not a high school science classroom filled with teenagers. The proper places to begin the discussion are peer review journals and the post-graduate thesis level. If the ID proponents have scientific evidence as to the validity of ID or the failures of evolution, let them present it to educated adults and not adolescent students. Are we expecting high school freshmen and sophomores to form the peer review panels?

As to whether or not ID is Creationism in disguise, allow me to suggest that at least ID as envisioned by the Discovery Institute in Seattle appears to be very much simply a marketing ploy for a faith based version of creation. Allow me to suggest that Cohen research quotes by institute members as well as read the, now rather famous, "Wedge Document." Certainly these seem to imply that we are not dealing with people that have an "honest" difference of opinion who want to engage in an open dialogue, but rather folks that are engaging in a "the end justifies the means" strategy where truth, accuracy and scientific integrity aren't all that important.