Though I am an atheist and a skeptic, I must confess I fully support the teaching of creationism - sorry, Intelligent Design - in our public schools.  In any serious consideration, especially in scientific ones, we must weigh the evidence and take into account all possible explanations of it before pronouncing ourselves satisfied with the answer.  The path to knowledge lies amidst the broken remains of ideas and theories discarded for their inadequacy.  We must not be afraid to kill our darlings, to borrow from literature, and if evolutionary theory is found wanting, it must be discarded as wholly useless.

Even if we concede that every fossil is a transitional form, we must also aknowledge that every fossil leaves two gaps in our knowledge of biological history where before there was only one.  If we cannot reasonably expect the skeletons of every living thing that ever died to be preserved in the fossil record, we must seriously consider that evolution may be fatally flawed. Of course, I have been having trouble finding any articles published in peer-reviewed journals demonstrating that no clear line can be drawn between light-spots on certain single-celled organisms and the irreducible complexity of the human eye.

I am not satisfied, however, with merely asking these questions.  It is imperative that, in these times of crises, our government find the most effective solutions to the problems that plague us.  We must demand that the government consider the power of prayer, which moves mountains according to one alternative theory, when outfitting our soldiers with armor and weapons.  We use dangerous beams of electromagnetic radiation and potentially lethal cocktails of chemicals to treat many diseases, when we don't just start barbarically cutting people open to rearrange their innards.  Are there no federally-funded hospitals researching the vibrational frequencies of carcinomas? Why not?

I am still unsatisfied, though.  All federally funded or subsidized scientific enterprizes should be forced by law to consider every alternative theory before trying to force "mainstream" ones down our throats. Every research lab, synagogue, mosque, church, and cathedral in the nation should have on hand the Holy Bible, as well as the Origin of Species, the Torah and Qu'ran, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the Book of Going Forth By Day and the Epic of Gilgamesh.  We must teach all of these alternative theories, favoring neither mainstream science nor any individual alternative theory when we teach in our classrooms and from our pulpits.  After all, one cannot elevate Intelligent Design to legitimate scientific theory without inviting every other alternative theory in through the same door.  We have to teach the controversies where-ever we find them.

Now I am satisfied.