I am a big fan of the "intelligent design" teaching packs that the god-botherers are sending out to our schools. I hope the government makes them compulsory. They will be incredibly useful in teaching kids the single most important lesson that anyone learns in school.
That lesson is, obviously, that adults in positions of power and responsibility often talk the most extraordinary bullshit. Either because they are kidding themselves, or because they think it is OK to mislead you in order to persuade you to behave in some desirable way, they will look you in the eye and lie to your face.
The widespread knowledge of this fact is surely the cornerstone of any democratic society, far more so than anything about evolution. So I say let the creationists make asses of themselves if they want to. The smart kids will see straight through them and the thick ones were never going to believe in evolution anyway, so who cares?
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