How would one go about teaching Intelligent Design? [View All]

[Don Claybrook]

Seriously, if you were tasked with teaching Intelligent Design in a school, how would you do it?

You might start with pointing out how grand, intricate, and marvelous our universe is. And then you'd follow-up with a statement that because the world is so grand, so intricate, so marvelous and beautiful, there must have been a creator to make all this stuff, to put it in motion, and so on. That's it. That's the conclusion. What else is there? I'm sure they'd spend weeks ranting about how evolution is wrong, carbon dating is wrong, etc, ad infinitum. But what about lessons in support of ID? Where's the meat of the course?

I really think ID is a philosophical argument, interesting as far as it goes, but certainly not science.

Be the devil's advocate: how would you teach intelligent design? What would you cover (other than demonizing accepted science)?