Intelligent Design
According to this article (via Balloon Juice):
"But a federal judge will consider the issue this fall, when a lawsuit against the Dover Area School District is scheduled to go to trial. The suit alleges that the school board violated the constitutional separation of church and state when it voted in October to require ninth-grade students to hear about intelligent design during biology class.
Michael J. Behe, a biological sciences professor at Lehigh University, told the subcommittee that intelligent design has no religious underpinnings. Critics argue that it is a variation of creationism, the biblical-based view that regards God as the creator of life."
I can imagine a conversation now.
Behe: Intelligent design has nothing to do with religion. All it says is that the universe was created by a higher being.
Me: You mean like a being that's more evolved than we are?
Behe: Yes, exactly, it's--no! Wait! That's not it at all!
"But a federal judge will consider the issue this fall, when a lawsuit against the Dover Area School District is scheduled to go to trial. The suit alleges that the school board violated the constitutional separation of church and state when it voted in October to require ninth-grade students to hear about intelligent design during biology class.
Michael J. Behe, a biological sciences professor at Lehigh University, told the subcommittee that intelligent design has no religious underpinnings. Critics argue that it is a variation of creationism, the biblical-based view that regards God as the creator of life."
I can imagine a conversation now.
Behe: Intelligent design has nothing to do with religion. All it says is that the universe was created by a higher being.
Me: You mean like a being that's more evolved than we are?
Behe: Yes, exactly, it's--no! Wait! That's not it at all!