Intelligent Design in public schools: Can any of you guys help me...

... find some information on the internet? I'm trying to find as many respected, established scientific organizations as possible along with statements about their stance on the issue of intelligent design being taught in public schools. This is for a paper I am writing for my public policy class.


Peace,

and would be impossible to "teach" as a subject in public schools.
Once the initial idea about ID is presented, the conversation is over. It is a theological notion.

The National Science Teachers Association. Here's their statement.

http://www.nsta.org/positionstatement&psid=10

Intelligent design taught ... as mythology
University of Kansas course explores flip side of science controversy

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10153657/

". . .“The KU faculty has had enough,” said Paul Mirecki, department chairman. “Creationism is mythology. Intelligent design is mythology. It’s not science. They try to make it sound like science. It clearly is not.” "



Theologian says intelligent design is religion
Catholic professor testifies on behalf of school policy’s foes

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9543398/from/RL.1/

"HARRISBURG, Pa. - "Intelligent design" is vastly similar to creationism and should be taught as religion, not science, a Catholic theologian testified Friday, on the fifth day of a trial over whether the concept belongs in a public school science curriculum as an alternative to evolution.

Georgetown University theology professor John F. Haught said that while intelligent-design proponents do not explicitly identify God as the creator of life, the concept is "essentially a religious proposition."

"I understand it to be a reformulation of an old theological argument for the existence of God," he said. "

on the topic:
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/ORIGINS/origins.html

http://www.natcenscied.org/

One of the more active opposition organizations to IDiocy.