Intelligent Design

We were reminded on Australia Talks Back this week about the demand that the so-called theory of "Intelligent Design" should be taught in our schools. It is another one of these debates where the liberal intelligentsia are hoisted on their own petards....in wanting genuine scientific and open discussion they are open to be hijacked by those whose agendas are anything but.
That this "Intelligent Design" has some powerful backers we should be aware....it is of course a front for a more acceptable form of creationism. And as was alluded to on ATB it is not only a scientific and theological agenda that is being addressed here it is a political one.
Note this article here in the Seattle Intelligencer which alludes to Bush's role, even though it probably downplays it. There is a certain irony in that the Minister of Education, Brendan Nelson is purported to be an advocate of teaching this theory alongside evolution in our schools.(see here). Now it does seem to me that we should be open in what we teach, and there is nothing wrong with presenting competing theories....is this what will happen in the so-called "Christian" schools....I doubt it.. But surely we should only be teaching genuine alternatives. The Flat Earth theory is a competing theory but no one seriously suggests we should waste time in our schools addressing it. Are we actually witnessing Nelson, along with all other Cabinet Ministers attempting to placate the influential Christian right in its emergent forms like Hillsong in Sydney and Paradise in Adelaide.
When I was a teacher we faced this issue in a class which we were teaching about the fossil record....we simply said (aware that there were two JW's in the class) "Not everyone believes that this theory is correct." And left it at that.

Can I just say, as a convinced creationist, that I can see nothing wrong with the suggestion that the process of Evolution is the way God uses to create the world. There is intelligent design in evolution, the Intelligence...God, if you like, ....uses evolution, natural selection, random patterns...and so on to create as he wants/needs to create.
That we do not understand such things as why things are the way they are, only serves to show us that God's "intelligence" is not fully understood.
Yet! And it may never be "fully understood". What do you think?