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I think most scientists will agree that life forms on this planet have been and are evolving. Therefore evolution of life on planet earth should be taught as our current best explaination of how this diversity has come about.
Just because we do not understand all the details of how this occurs is no reason to assume there is an intelligent designer behind it, much less require it be taught as a scientific explaination. Life on planet earth may be a school project, an experiment set up by a student from an advanced civilization or any number of other designer theories. This type of thinking belongs in a philosophy class and not a science class.
IMHO, teaching intelligent (or unintelligent) design is not much different than teaching that the Tower of Babel is the reason for the world's many diverse languages.
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