Too Much for One Period

The idea of teaching Intelligent Design is good in theory, but it is just not possible. First schools would have to teach evolution and explain it to students. To teach evolution they would have to get them to disregard all they have ever known about the existence of the world. After this, teachers would finally be able to teach Intelligent Design, which would reinforce what they have just made students forget. All of this would take up more than one class period. Students would be thoroughly confused, so extra time would need to be taken to further explain the ideals of both theories. Furthermore, teaching Intelligent Design would be teaching tolerance. Intelligent Design disputes creationism, but it also provides tolerance for other beliefs as to the existence of people. If this tolerance is allowed, then why aren’t other theories allowed to be taught? "So much for today's biology lesson" could stand for the fact that the lesson took so long and confused the students, thus getting nothing accomplished for the day. The subject is then changed to geography, but the globe is not round. The flat globe shows that now that Intelligent Design is being taught, tolerance for other ideas like a flat earth must also be taught in the classroom. The flat earth idea seems to be ridiculous, but if the "odd" idea of Intelligent Design must be taught then other "odd" ideas must also be taught. It appears that the cartoonist also feels that the Intelligent Design idea is ridiculous. This is shown by the fact that he draws the teacher switching from the topic of Intelligent Design to Intelligent Geography ("the earth is flat" theory).

Taken from: http://www.goalsforamericans.org/gallery/d/245-4/IntelligentDesignCartoonSteveSack8-8-05.jpg