Leading Republican differs with Bush on evolution

Reuters reports A leading Republican senator allied with the religious right differed on Thursday with President Bush's support for teaching an alternative to the theory of evolution known as "intelligent design." Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, a possible 2008 presidential contender who faces a tough re-election fight next year in Pennsylvania, said intelligent design, which is backed by many religious conservatives, lacked scientific credibility and should not be taught in science classes.

ID says that Evolution was one of the tools that God used to create the world (and everything else). The Secular Humanists say that Evolution did it without god's help. I find it strange that Rick Santorum would endorse the godless solution over the solution that involves God.

Bush told reporters from Texas on Monday that "both sides" in the debate over intelligent design and evolution should be taught in schools "so people can understand what the debate is about."

I agree. I would also like Creation taught as an alternative as well, since many believe in it (Creation and ID are NOT the same thing)

"I think I would probably tailor that a little more than what the president has suggested," Santorum, the third-ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate, told National Public Radio. "I'm not comfortable with intelligent design being taught in the science classroom."

The first amendment provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". Secular Humanism is a religion that caters to atheists and agnostics, who prefer the godless version of Evolution. Since there are so many more Christians, Jews, and Muslims, all of whom believe in a Supreme Being, than there are atheists and agnostics, why not also offer the alternative of Evolution occurring as a tool of that Supreme Being, and possibly also teaching the Creationist's version (which says it happened literally as told in Genesis).

Evangelical Christians have launched campaigns in at least 18 states to make public schools teach intelligent design alongside Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Proponents of intelligent design argue that nature is so complex that it could not have occurred by random natural selection, as held by Darwin's 1859 theory of evolution, and so must be the work of an unnamed "intelligent cause."