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Many scientists are divided on this issue. Science isn't served by dominance of 1 area of science. Science is much too complicated and interrelated with other areas of science to hold one aspect of science as iconic over another. Besides science is almost constantly under revision. Do you think everything we are taught is always correct? Aren't people constantly learning, relearning, applying and re-applying. People can't find the mistakes if you don't teach everything. Besides what if a discovery spins off from the teaching of intelligent design?

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This is what you are missing Splendour.

Scientists are not divided on this issue. The ID movement (formerly the scientific creationism movement) has framed the public, especially Christian, perception of the issue to make it seem so, but it's just not the case. Evolution is one of the most well supported and tested theories in all of science. Very few scientists actively disbelieve its conclusions, and the ones who do always seem to do so for theological reasons.

Also, ID is not science. It makes no hypotheses or testable prediction. It attempts to retrofit weaknesses of evolution and gaps in evidence as support for ID. It creates a false dilemma that either evolution or creationism is correct, and since we haven't found evidence to support X, Y, and Z being a product of evolution, evolution must be false and thus by default ID is true.

The public ID/evolution debate isn't about teaching "both sides" of the issue, it's about blatantly lying to children in support of religious ideals. One side wishes to cloud the issue with doublespeak and, unfortunately, they're very good at it.