Ijust happened to be reading the Kansas City Star the other day when a fascinating article caught my eye. The Star reported, in its Aug. 2 edition, that the Kansas Board of Education has approved a draft of new science standards proposed by supporters of so-called Intelligent Design.
I must confess that I have long been intrigued by this theory referred to as ID. And, by God, I'm not the only one.
George W. Bush, speaking to a group of Texas reporters at the White House on Aug. 3, said that ID should be taught in U.S. schools alongside evolution. Moreover, the president has been joined in this opinion by some powerful folk, including Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., who calls ID "a legitimate scientific theory"; and no less than Australia's Education Minister Dr. Brendan Nelson, who told the National Press Club in Canberra on Aug. 10 that "life on Earth is too complex to have evolved purely through Darwin's theory of natural selection." And it isn't only Dr. Nelson for whom life on Earth is seemingly too complex, but a growing horde of thinking people as well as politicians.