A Response to J. Gorman's "Why We Should Be Teaching Intelligent Design to High School Students"

First, let me invite you to read Mr. Gorman's short article here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/101255/why_we_should_be_teaching_intelligent.html
so you do not come into this discussion blind. Or, if you do not feel the need to read it (I scarcely did, but having done so, I feel compelled by my moral scruples to give reply to this editor's pick), let me offer you an abstract.

Children should not be sheltered from ideas that challenge our traditional values. Evolution was rejected in its own day, and Intelligent Design is rejected today. Therefore we should teach Intelligent Design.

The fish have been released into the barrel.

Let us take the first argument listed above and approach it as politely and calmly as our rational minds allow, and apply its reasoning consistently.

Because we have neither qualifying evidence for or against, but because the idea is highly controversial, history classes should teach high school students that the Holocaust never happened. It is highly controversial, yes, but people certainly do argue both sides of the issue. And of course, Holocaust denial is being rejected by the West, but so was Darwinian evolution in its day, so because they were both rejected, they are of equal value. Also because they both question common conceptions of the world, they should both be taught.

One time in a dream, a pink unicorn told me that the Creature from the Black Lagoon generated the entire universe and everything in it in a single instant roughly 25,000 years ago. This, of course, offends the secular liberal atheist Godless communist homosexual feminist anti-God anti-man anti-capitalist anti-thought anti-life anti-love anti-humanity Illuminati Freemason Neo-Nazi CIA Bilderburg Vatican conspirators who work daily to drive God from the minds of our young children, and because it is so offensive, it should be taught. Because we can't disprove it rationally, the idea must be taught. Otherwise, we would ourselves be guilty of brainwashing our children with these atheistic liberal values.