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There has been many recent discussion around the country of the looming issue of intelligent design and the introduction of this concept in public schools. According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, "intelligent design, or ID, is the controversial assertion that certain features of the universe and of living things exhibit the characteristics of a product resulting from an intelligent cause or agent, not an unguided process such as natural selection. Though publicly most ID advocates state that their focus is on detecting evidence of design in nature, without regard to who or what the designer might be, in statements to their constituents and supporters nearly all state explicitly that they believe the designer to be the Christian God (Intelligent Design, Wikipedia)" Because of this relation to Christianity, intelligent design is a form of creationism and, as a concept that is not based on scientific method, it does not belong in our science classrooms.
Professor Kenneth Miller......

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