Piety, Polity, and Darwinism

No rabbi instead we have a whole new faith system, which is what you seem to have bought into. Darwinian creation is even more of a faith system than intelligent design. there is no, zero, nil, nada proof of a system that can create and grow itself, it defies all the laws of physics entropy. At least intelligent design is intellectually honest, a transcendant being created, put in motion and supervised the creation of the universe. Anything else is a faith system and how that can be foisted on school children which most scientists don't even accept it is something that is illogical. I have never seen an intelligible argument for it and cannot honestly understand what it's proponents are trying to say. As for separation of church and state it is not in the constitution it was a phrase used by President Jefferson in a letter. Please check the constitution and a science book the next time you propose to write about creation.

Evolution is taught as a theory, based on observation, as are other sciences and mathmatics. A theory remains until it is either proved or disproved. I can live with that. The problem with presenting ID or any other form of "G-d made this" to a public school class, is...how do you answer the follow-up questions? Whose G-d? I personally believe in One, and only One, but others disagree. Public school is not the place to sort this out, as there would not be enough time remaining in the school day to cover the basics we send our children there to learn. Your home and place of worship is a much more appropriate venue for those discussions. Despite what others might say, I believe that parents have more influence over their children than schools, peers, or others. Children learn from what we say, and do. Every comment and action is recorded, including expressed intolerance of the opinion of others, and lack of respect for education. I believe that stronger faith is developed when it is questioned.

And if nothing comes from nothing, but only from an intelligent designer Then -- where does that designer come from? Who made the watchmaker? And if the design is so intelligent - why does Down's Syndrome exist (strictly speaking they are mutants with a different number of chromosomes than normal humans), or Tay-Sachs, or small pox? Or a host of other conditions like XYY genes? Even Behe admitted under oath that ID is not science. I believe in a design but not as an article of science, especially because ID is only invoked to avoid hard reasearch and tough questions.