An "Intelligent" Proposal

Report:

President Bush said Monday he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life.

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“I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought,” Bush said. “You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.”

We agree. 100 percent.

In fact in the interest of fairness and diveristy and exposing folks to different schools of thought, and so on, we propose that the following ideas be taught in public school, right alongide the fundie-Christian Creation Myth*:

Babylonian Creation Myth
Navajo Creation Myth
Norse Creation Myth
Comanche Creation Myth
Chinese Creation Myth
Pima Creation Myth
Mayan Creation Myth
Australian Aboriginal Creation Myth
Hopi Creation Myth
Tahitian Creation Myth
Egyptian Creation Myths
Micmac Creation Myth
Lakota Creation Myth
Aztec Creation Myth
Apache Creation Myth
Dakota Creation MythHungarian Creation Myth
Iroquois Creation Myth
Inuit Creation Myth
Hawaiian Creation Myth

* Before you, (by which I mean Dude, Bishy, and Heshy) start screaming, the Fundie-Christian Creation Myth is NOT identical with the Jewish view of how the world came into being. See Slifkin, the Tiferes Yisroel, Samson Rephael Hirsch, et al. What's that, you say? Our current crop of Gedolim don't approve of Slifkin, the Tiferes Yisroel, Samson Rephael Hirsch, et al? Well, that's a big problem, as discussed here, there and elsewhere.