The UK government has issued new guidelines to teachers on what
to teach about creationism and intelligent design in science
classes. They are pretty explicit that creationism and ID do not
belong. The move seems to be a response to efforts by the
ironically named campaign group "Truth in Science". Last year it
sent DVDs promoting ID to every school in the land in the hope
that they would be used to teach the creationist idea alongisde
evolution in science lessons. The new guidelines could not be
clearer: Creationism and intelligent design are not part of the
science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not
be taught as science. That doesn't mean it cannot be mentioned
of course, but the guidelines state that it should only feature
as part of discussions about what does and does not make a
scientific theory. The use of the word 'theory' can mislead
those not familiar with science as a subject discipline because
it is different from the everyday meaning of being little more
than a 'hunch'. In sci