Bush endorses 'intelligent design' [View All]

[beam me up scottie]

Contends theory should be taught with evolution
By Ron Hutcheson, Knight Ridder | August 2, 2005

"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."

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."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/02/bush_endorses_intelligent_design/

"different schools of thought" eh?