My recent post on a forum in the US dealing with teaching Inteligent Design in public school…

After reading thread after thread, Fundy and Freethinkers clashing I have made a number of observations. Most of these observations have been validated upon visiting the xian forums and reading their posts and arguments. I am beginning to feel that my freedom is beginning to be threatened, even here in Canada by these people (and I use this term very loosely). With the separation of church and state beginning to fade, the religious gaining more and more influence, they are beginning to change laws and there is nothing we really can do about. I have seen ID being pushed more and more in the US and the Theory of Evolution being swept under the carpet and the term science being misused continuously something has to be done. Here is my proposal; allow the schools to teach ID in high school, grade 10 to 12. Allow them to study the possibilities of ID and the deconstruction of Evolution for all I care for. Now, in exchange of allow the xians to win and allow ID, they have to make a compromise, they have to allow logic and philosophy to be taught. After reading all these religious forums, I have reached the conclusion, they are not educated in the basics of logical thought and reasoning, where on this forum it is in abundance. Allow logic and philosophy to be taught starting in elementary school, grade 5 or so, start introducing the children to other religion and basic philosophy. Also, place a higher importance on math, what is more logical then math? If we can educate these children from a young age, I would hope by the time they are introduced to ID, they will have the tools to look at it and laugh, figure after 5 years of logic and philosophy education, they would be able to look at things more logically and rationally, and this even includes their religious up bringing. Even if the parents are very religious and attend church regularly, once a week will not be enough to over power 5 days a week of education. Imagine a grade 8 student pointing out fallacies of a priests statements, or beginning to ask question they could not answer. If we want to win this religious war, we need to use our most powerful weapon, education and diversity or the world.

So what do you think? Lose one battle to win the war? Even if it takes a full generation?