Mar 11 2002, COLUMBUS, Ohio –– 1,500 people heard scientists who support teaching Evolution square off against backers of "Intelligent Design" as the state school board develops Science Standards.
The state's current Science Guidelines avoids the word "evolution" and recommends a new draft that includes "evolution" but also "Intelligent Design," an unscientific idea that life is too complex to have happened by chance and, therefore, must have been designed by a higher power. Several board members have pushed for other views to be taught alongside evolution.
"Intelligent Design" is a disguise for Creationism. The argument is that Intelligent Design doesn't specify the designer, and that the theory isn't about religion.