Bobby Jindal Supports Teaching Intelligent Design In Schools
Not in place of evolutionary theory but rather beside it.
I’m rather disappointed to hear this from Jindal. My personal feelings about intelligent design is that it’s a bunch of patched-together hokum made up by pre-science zealots at a loss for explaining how the world was created. But that’s just this man’s opinion and I certainly don’t begrudge others their opinion on the matter. But even so, I don’t want my tax dollars to go toward teaching religious creation stories in schools and I think that if such stories were taught in school it’d probably violate the Constitution’s establishment clause.
Unless the school were to start teaching evolution, intelligent design and all the other creation stories from all the religions of the world. Because that’s what it would take for such lessons to be Constitutional.
Best not to open that Pandora’s Box, no?
Regardless, Jindal can easily nip this controversy in the bud by saying that he has a personal preference for teaching ID in schools but that he thinks the issue is something for each state, and each local school board, to solve for themselves. That’s a soundly conservative, soundly federalist position to have.
