Okay, I'm not expecting cooler heads to prevail here on this topic -- if the comments I have on YouTube are any indication (and thankfully I only had to delete one over there), this is a sharply divided topic. So I will state up front my position: I'm a born-again Christian who believes that there are too many holes in evolutionary theory to completely dismiss the idea of intelligent design. And the first person who calls me "fat" or "stupid" for believing this will get me monitoring the posts again.
With that being said -- Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the man who would be the Barack Obama of the right (except with more intelligence and common sense), has been facing a tough challenge: should ID be taught in school along with evolution, or shouldn't it?
It is a tough question for some people, mostly because people see ID as "creationism." And to a lot of people, "creationism" equals "religion."
I don't see it that way, personally. I think intelligent design is quite possibly a way to explain gaps in evolutionary theory. Such as -- if humans are descendants of apes, why are there still apes on this planet? Why don't we have a completely apeless planet if everything evolves eventually?
Providing an alternate theory is an education, not dismissing any particular one. I think one of the smart things about the bill is the idea of leaving it up to the individual school boards to decide whether they are going to teach ID and sidetrack the whole thing.
Frankly, I don't envy the position he's in. It has to be tough. But again, hopefully coller heads will prevail in this case.
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