Quote Originally Posted by Pindar
I think one of the difficulties facing U.S. School Districts and this issue is that there is a strong anti-intellectual strain behind much of Fundamentalist Christianity (FC). Initially this religious approach coped with Modernity by divorcing itself from the public square. This changed in the late Seventies: groups like the Moral Majority serve as examples. The FC push for political power was/is in many ways a reactionary movement. This same sentiment applies to many larger academic issues which are seen as threats to revealed truth. Secular investigature of "truth" is often taken as pernicious because the base assumptions are not the same. Until this feeling can be overcome the friction will continue.
But isn´t it so that for FC, intelligent design is already heresy? I would think that most non-fundamentalist christians believe in intelligent design. What role could God play otherwise?