If the arguments supporting the teaching of intelligent design (ID) to children is that teaching ID offers an alternative to evolution? That science is just a religion anyway and so scientific assertion is only philosophically based, then shouldn’t the flat earth theory be taught as astronomy?

The Flat Earth society is still going strong. Thats tenacity for you.

I think kids should have more say in what they learn. We should stop paying teachers too. Paid teachers care not a jot for their students. They just want to finish reading the unfamiliar material they from the textbook which they expect the kids to learn parrot fashion, get home or to the pub and relax where they can talk about anything but the kids they are supposed to be helping. Volunteers would do a better job. Even the ancient greeks knew that.

Give kids choice and dedicated teachers and they will become interested in what they are learning. Then watch them bloom.

I gather by your model WayneSmith by 2050 the witnesses in court swear on Harry Potter.The broom stick industry will likely be taken over by British Aerospace or Lockheed.

West - theonion.com did a story a while back similar to what you're saying. Something along the lines of "Religious Figures Back Teaching of 'Intelligent Falling Theory' as an Alternative to the Theory of Gravity".

Pretty much sums it up..

West, if anyone is producing any means of transport,
broom sticks, or any other, it sure won't be the British.
Remember Leyland?

Flat Earth theory is OK if you are reading "Navsat"; but West is so ridiculous in his understanding of other points of view, he will go to any length to display his ignorance.