If so, then we can brand it that way. This makes it explicit as to where these "designs" come from. The underlying basis for Christian intelligent design is faith. Evolution is based upon provable facts, not faith. Therefore Christian intelligent design is not objective, but rather subjective and explicitly religious. Since when is the public forced to teach a specific religion?
Evolution seeks to understand the creation of the universe from the measured beginning of the universe. Christian intelligent design seeks to understand existence and God. The Christian belief of God is that God has no beginning and no end. God is eternal. God predates the universe only because God created the universe. Since God "had" no beginning, it is faith alone and not science that says God exists. Any objective scientist will say that something must have created the universe and that God is as good of an explanation as any, but objectively a scientist has no mechanism to measure God. The scientist doesn't say that God doesn't exist, just that the scientist cannot prove that God does or does not exist.
Two very different things. As such one is saved for factual teaching and the other for religious teaching. The constitution says that the government does not respect the establishment of religion, therefore public schools being a public entity cannot respect the establishment of religion.
However let us say for a moment, that government can respect the establishment of religion. Which religion? To be fair, it would have to be all religions wouldn't it? If so, does the American public wish to have their government teach their children about religion for which they do not believe in? If religion in public schools is to be respected then all religions must be taught. Then we would have to go into the arguments of which religion is valid or not valid. Should the number of religions taught be restricted to a certain number? If so, how many and which religions?
If you are catholic, do you want your kids taught about the creation of the universe through the lens of the God for some other religion?
What about non-christian religions. Should kids be taught about non-christian religions and their creation myth?
Where does it stop? Wars have been fought over "my religion is better than your religion".
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