- In typical fashion George Bush has put the cat among the
pigeons with his August 1 endorsement of intelligent design. He
is reported to have said that intelligent design should be
taught "so people can understand what the debate is about" More
potentially catastrophic, however, he basically endorsed giving
intelligent design equal standing in the curriculum with
scientific study of nature, including the origins of life, key
areas of which focus on evolution. Such a move is strongly
opposed by leading scientific groups such as the National
Academy of Sciences, but, of course, the Bush endorsement is
being viewed by his Christian supporters as a virtually unfunded
mandate to corrupt the science programs of the American
educational system. - The "debate" Bush referred to is a fraud.
The intelligent design case, glitzed up with scientific sounding
terms such as "irreducible complexity" is that life is too
important and too complicated to be explained by mundane
processes such as evolution. This argument is simp