This whole topic is very frustrating for people that are interested in having students well educated in science. Intelligent Design is not science because the only experimental data used to validate conjectures of Intelligent Design proponents is the supposed lack of evidence for evolution theory. If Intelligent Design was science, then people would publish there views in scientific peer reviewed journals and let the information disseminate from there to highschools. Instead proponents of intelligent design are high jacking the system by having frustrating battles with highschool science boards. The Kansas highschool science board members worked hard on writing science standards for not only biology but also chemistry and physics. Now since this 'controversy' hit no attention has been given to any of the work going on in fields besides evolution research.
I study mainly chemistry and physics, so I don't have a lot of the experimental data available to me that several posts have mentioned. But I do think that science is often severly misunderstood. Many people on this board talk about how evolution will never ba a scientific fact, how abiogenisis is a scientific fact, or about other things that are or are not scientific facts. Evolution, abiogenesis, and other scientific theories will never be facts. Scientific theories are always falsifiable by definition. A scientific theory and the assumptions that the theory makes are accepted if the theory is consistent with current scientific facts. Evolution and abiogenesis are consistent with current experimental data ( and lack of data is not inconsistent ). There should not be a controversy. Only science should be taught in science classrooms.
I don't agree with some of the ridicule that is sent towards people of faith in higher powers. Science is often misconstrued as being composed of ultimate truths. That is simply not the case. Science is generating theories that are consistent with experimental data.
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