Yeah, maybe I am annoyed.

I’m getting tired of Christians trying to portray "Intelligent Design" and "Creationism" as valid scientific theories.  Even worse, they are trying to get this religious garbage taught in public schools, completely disregarding the fact that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory:

In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it often does in other contexts. Scientific theories are never proven to be true, but can be disproven. All scientific understanding takes the form of hypotheses, or conjectures. A theory is in this context a set of hypotheses that are logically bound together.

In various sciences, a theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a certain natural or social phenomenon, thus either originating from or supported by experimental evidence  In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations made that is predictive, logical, testable, and has never been falsified.

How does the theory of intelligent design originate from experimental evidence?  What evidence can be pointed as proof that an intelligent force guided evolution?  "Oh, but living organisms are so complex that nothing else can explain them!"  Bull.  Shit.  It’s called natural selection.  Believe me, I think the lion is going to eat the antelope with only 3 legs, but the one with 4 might get away, and have a chance to reproduce.  The conditions of nature killed off the designs that didn’t work, and the designs that did work reproduced and passed on their functional genetic code.

Are there gaps in Evolution?  Yes.  But I think they are more acceptable than the HUGE FUCKING GAP you get when you say an "intelligent force" was responsible for something.  The entire point of science is to explain natural phenomena.  I don’t think "God did it" is much of an explaination.  That require faith of some kind.  And I’d rather have cold, hard facts. 

Intelligent design is not testable, and Creationism is even less so.  You can’t go outside, look at the sky and ask "Hey, intelligent force, did you create this?  Or maybe give it a hand?"  Of course, evolution isn’t testable either, is it?  Except the results of evolution by natural selection are pretty obvious.  Antelope have 4 legs, humans have really big brains, and the Dodo bird no longer exists. 

Faith and science don’t go together, and Intelligent design just seems like a catch-all easy way out to me.

Let the flames begin.