And that's exactly where the issue lies, in the wrong class.
What I gather from the BBC article is that Creationism is being taught, not as a comparison, but as a fact of nature, which is correctly interpreted as a fallacy which undermines the facts of the sciences a kid might elect to take in the future. Kinda hard to teach biology to someone who believes that flatworms are the way they are because that's how they were created.
As for the issue involving so-called intelligent design, of all things, this is really nothing more than a plagiarism of Roddenberry’s Federation of Planets. In the original series, the theory that Klingons, Romulans, Volcans and Humans are all related, since this little corner of the galaxy was previously seeded by those who came before, was raised. This idea even appears in Mission to Mars, as well as several sci-fi books. I say, until there is solid evidence of an ET life form that can/could have performed such a task, its less than myth. It’s pure fiction, and the only place in the school system intelligent design might belong is in the science fiction book club.
Dan
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