The key word here--and Knapp seems amusingly blind to it--is CREATE. CREATE! Someone had to do some CREATING to get the cells and DNA. There are none so blind as those who absolutely refuse to see. :)

“Intelligent Design” is the new, pseudo-scientific sounding name for good ol’ fashioned Southern, Bible thumpin’ “Creationism”. As if you could really use the word “Intelligent” when referring to anything that has to do with Kansas. Maybe if the supporters of this legislation would loosen their Bible Belt by a notch or two, they could get more blood to their brains.

This whole situation made me quite distraught. The thought of children being taught that they are descendant from the people of the South rather than monkeys is a sad, sad situation.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with the origins of life.

Where's Steve Verdon with the smackdown on these guys?

Book burning? Yes, scientists have created primitive DNA in the lab under special conditions that are now not recognized as the conditions of the primitive earth. Anon's statement is a valid point.

My guess is that evolution probably is correct, and I'm certainly open to new discoveries - but the idea that somehow mocking those who disagree with evolution's premises is a scientific pursuit certainly has no merit.
Scientists have bias - you need look no further than the man-made global warming fiasco to see that. On their own turf, they are indeed authorities. That turf is very narrow.

The correct way to state evolution, is to say, "from what we can determine, it is highly likely that life evolved on this planet from simpler lifeforms that evolved themselves from chemical mixes we don't fully understand We'll get back to you with more later."

Social Darwinism, and teaching science as a fact rather than the method is where scientists get into trouble.

As a Christian, I believe strongly that faith are reason must not be incompatibile. God gave us the tools to reason, which means is it good to use them. Stepping outside of reason to pitch a political or social viewpoint is not science. I don't agree with teaching intelligent design in schools - but I also would prefer they actually teach scientific method and not nonsense.

I remember well the global warming scenarios I wrote about as a sixth grader that said we would all be dead from a baked world right now. Right out of my textbooks.

Science should be about the method, not the convenient theories of the day. There's a verse in the bible concerning a speck and a mote that speaks well to that.

God making a universe would cause a rather big bang, don't you think?