WFB on ID Our founders made a wise choice when they separated church from state (establishment clause). However, as we have seen, shifting interpretations of the establishment clause have now led us to a situation where God cannot even be mentioned in public schools (or, at least, the education establishment, with the help of the ACLU, has made us believe so). William F. Buckley has some interesting insights into how this has affected our schools and the teaching of evolution. Will allowing a discussion of philosophy into the teaching of evolution confuse students?

While I support ID, I am a bit wary of how quickly they are trying to get their beliefs/findings/philosophy into the public school system. A better course of action may be to let ID mature and gain more adherents in the scientific community before trying to change school curriculums (curriculi?). Will forcing ID into schools now really benefit us in the long run? The first step, at this point (and a huge one) would be to simply ask that the possibilty that evolution does not fully explain life be discussed, and that students understand that the theories associated with it come from a Philosophic Naturalist (read: no God) background.

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