California high school sued over 'intelligent design' class (Not even Philosophy Class?)

Greetings all -

Just got back into town a little bit ago and thought I'd post this
little item I just found. It may be of interest to most of you. ~ Janice

"Though personally a believer in Darwinian evolution, I see no
problem whatever in teaching ID in a philosophy class. Indeed, if one
purpose of philosophy is to teach people to think about important
issues, one can make a good case that ID is exactly the sort of thing
that should be taught.

Notice also a curious inconsistency in the brief. These people claim
that ID should not be taught in a biology class because it "isn't
science". Now they object to it being taught in a philosophy class
because the teacher has no "scientific qualifications"!

So tell me, why does one need scientific qualifications to teach what
isn't science? This looks like blatant special pleading, and I'm
pretty sure it won't stand up to scrutiny."

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