Is Intelligent Design a Good Idea?

In the 1987 Supreme Court ruling against teaching creationism or religion in public schools, they had a textbook called pandas. They changed it with a macro command to change creationism to intelligent design. So that a superior intelligent being a supreme intelligence created magically all of these things without having evolved. And so there's no room for the immaterial, the transcendent, you have to explain everything materialistically. The naturalistic position is hard to debate. We don't assume magic. There was a reason I brought that up because there was a reason Matt brought that up.

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