“I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought,” Bush said. “You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.”
Some ideas are better than others.
The idea that you go to heaven if you blow up innocent people is nauseating. This idea is extremely dangerous even if it is taught to a small number of people.
A global education system, where ideas that have no supporting evidence or predictive ability are taught as fiction but never fact would help erradicate the word of ideas like those above.
Because the defense of Intelligent Design is not on its own merits, but the merits of teaching different ideas, it creates a bad precedent.
It may seem ridiculous to create the analogy, but just as separation of church and state is important, separation of church and science is too.
KRT Wire | 08/01/2005 | Bush endorses teaching ‘intelligent design’