Ben Stein to take on Darwinism on April 18

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That Guy said:
Throwing the idea out there as an intro elective class is a good way of getting people to work on it.

* CREATION
o Flat Earthers
o Geocentrists
o Young Earth Creationists
+ (Omphalos)
o Old Earth Creationists
+ (Gap Creationism)
+ (Day-Age Creationism)
+ (Progressive Creationism)
+ (Intelligent Design Creationism)
o Evolutionary Creationists
o Theistic Evolutionists
o Methodological Materialistic Evolutionists
o Philosophical Materialistic Evolutionists
* EVOLUTION

Summing up these theories is a 10-week course in itself. If you get the students involved with it, then guess what? In 5 years then maybe they will turn into grad students and will publish papers on evidence that they find. You need to get the ball rolling somewhere.

Offering an elective course on ID hardly gives it any sort of legitimacy. Some schools offer a Simpsons Class; no one ever criticises that, do they? I'm not asserting that its a required course along with math and physics. I'm just saying that if people want to learn about it, let them, just as long as they understand the limitations and criticisms.

I don't understand why you're so against even giving people the chance to investigate ID. How else are they going to look into it? TV? AIG? VGChartz?

I think you have a somewhat different idea of education. The fact that there is a body of people who believe in something has little to no bearing on the legitimacy of the that thing.  To study that group of people and why they believe those things to better understand that group of people would be a great class, but to offer a class that proactively advocate those ideas in the face of it being a complete academic falsehood isn't what you do at a school. In fact the whole point of school is to do the opposite.