Prairie Home Companion on Intelligent Design

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This is for John ZuHone:

Prairie Home Companion's take on teaching intelligent design in school:

Sue Scott: Hello and welcome to Central High. I'm your teacher, Miss DuCharme. The class is called Origins of Life and we deal with evolution or intelligent design or creation, the Big Bang, erosion, whatever you want to call that process or event or whatever it was that came at the beginning. This is a self-taught course, so I will not be here in the classroom with you, so your assignment is to write one paper about whatever you believe in, and that's just as valid as whatever anyone else thinks, so. — Not a problem. You're probably wondering about grades — you will be grading these papers yourself, so that the bias of your teacher does not influence your grade, so I would advise you just to give yourself an A because that's what everyone else does. Yes?

read the rest of the script here

listen to it here (under segment 2)