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As the trial in Dover PA about teaching Intelligent Design in science classes, gets underway it's instructive to look at some of the press from overseas. This article from the UK's Guardian quotes one participant saying:

You can dress up intelligent design and make it look like science, but it just doesn't pass muster. In science class, you don't say to the students, 'Is there gravity, or do you think we have rubber bands on our feet?

Love the Brits sense of style.

In addition I have to point out that if it is rules that Intelligent Design is not primarily a religious philosophy disguised as science then the theories of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster must also be taught.