Another victory against Intelligent Design Creationalism!

The El Tejon School district in California that tried to teach ID as a philosophy class agreed to stop teaching their "Philosophy of Design" Intelligent Design class. Ironically, they are working so hard to try to make people believe ID is a valid science and the teacher that taught the "Philosophy of Design"class is quoted as saying "I believe this is the class that the Lord wanted me to teach".

From CNN.com:

Under legal pressure, a rural school district agreed Tuesday to stop offering high school students an elective philosophy course on "intelligent design," an advocacy group said.

A group of parents had sued the El Tejon school district in federal court last week, saying it violated the constitutional separation of church and state by offering "Philosophy of Design," a course taught by a minister's wife that advanced the notion that life is so complex it must have been created by some kind of higher intelligence.

Ayesha N. Khan, legal director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represented the parents, said Frazier Mountain High agreed to drop the class.

"This sends a strong signal to school districts across the country that they cannot promote creationism or intelligent design as an alternative to evolution, whether they do so in a science class or a humanities class," Khan said.

Check out in your area. The odds are that someone is trying to promote this crap in your community. Someone tried in my area. It was pretty funny how quickly she was slapped back down.

El Tejon Superintendent John Wight said the subject was proper for a philosophy class. But Americans United argued the course relied almost exclusively on videos that presented religious theories as scientific ones.

The high school in the Tehachapi Mountains about 75 miles north of Los Angeles draws 500 students from a dozen small communities.

It's not philosophy, it's faith. Philosophy asks big questions like "Why are we here?". Faith does not ask these questions, it contends it already has those answers. I'm not trying to campaign against faith. I believe faith can have an important role in the world but I cannot understand why a person would believe so strongly in faith that they would push reality out the window. It makes no sense to me.

The entire article can be found here:
California district to stop teaching 'intelligent design'

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