My favorite answer to the intelligent design debate: the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Ya know, I actually agree with this statement. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in Intelligent Design. As a scientist, it makes me cringe that people can still believe in it. When I learned as a public school teacher, I was required to present "other theories" to evolution, I was pissed. I was ready to go the director of science, the Board of Education, the superintendent, whoever to fight it.

Then I realized, I teach 7th grade. And the time line for teaching "other theories" is scheduled to be roughly 1/4 of a 40 minute period.

Maybe it makes a difference for high schoolers, but it certianly isn't worth my effort to fight the system. I plan to say something like this: Evolution is a theory; there is no way to test it during anyone's lifetime so it will most likely remain a theory with excellent supporting evidence. Other theories exsit about life, however none are as plausible as evolution. If you are interested in the other theories, I suggest you research them on your own time.

A week? At my high school (Catholic, no less) we didn't even spend a full class period on it. My biology teacher said he was a science teacher and not a theologian, and taught evolution.

As far as I.D. being taught in schools....eh....I'm not sure. Because there is little to no evidence to back it up, I wouldn't spend more than 10 minutes talking about it. But Rudey's right. If its going to just be lightly touched, I don't think people should get all worked up over this issue.

The Bible says that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. So when it says He created the world in 6 days, maybe it was really 6000 years. But honestly, He's God, if it says He created the world in 6 days, I believe He created the world in 6 days. One day, I will ask him.
Parts of evolution, such as natural selection/survival of the fittest, that makes sense. Adam lived to be 930 years old (Gen 5:5), so something obviously happned between the creation of man and now.

Woah, woah, woah...

See what you are supporting is Creationsim (gotta admit I've never met anyone who was a Creationist), not ID - the basic principles of ID don't believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible, particularlly when it comes to time lines and such (basically because those where concretely shown to be wrong centuries ago). ID basically states that God created everything, and guides the natural selection - but that natural selection only invovles Microevolutionary changes not Macroevolutionary changes.

Best site EVER.

Especially impressed in this guy's research. Global warming caused by the declining number of pirates... who'd've thunk?

I so want a mug. And I want to present this in addition to ID and evolution. Seriously, I am.

Intelligent Design = Creationism in a Cheap Tuxedo

Edited to add: I think I love the Flying Spaghetti Monster... I too am getting a mug.

I guess there's more and more of us who have been touched by His Noodly Appendage! GC Pastafarians unite! :D

Go Flying Spaghetti Monster! :D

Actually I'm fine with creationism and intelligent design being taught in school...as part of a comparative religion class or any other sort of religion class. NOT in science class.

Heck, you could probably do a class just about different theories of creation. There are loads to choose from from all different cultures.