It is perfectly ok for the University of Kansas to teach creationism and intelligent design

Univ. of Kansas takes up creation debate

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Creationism and intelligent design are going to be studied at the University of Kansas, but not in the way advocated by opponents of the theory of evolution.

A course being offered next semester by the university religious studies department is titled "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies."

"The KU faculty has had enough," said Paul Mirecki, department chairman.

Source - seattlepi

US university system is one of the best university systems in the world, and it is partly due to the fact that there are variety of universities for students to study at. There are private universities, national universities, state universities, city universities, religious universities and for profit universities. Given the current US university system, the University of Kansas's decision to teach creationism and intelligent design only adds a choice for students. If they prefer not to study the subject, they can take other courses. If they prefer that the university not teach creationism and intelligent design, they can study at some other university. There are number of universities just within the state of Kansas. However, the decision to teach creationism and intelligent design at a high school can be troublesome because students do not have many choices to begin with. Ted Forstmann, Chairman & CEO, Children's Scholarship Fund, claims that US high school education is monopolized by US government, and that is a fair point. It is rather dangerous for US high school to teach a certain doctrine since it does not facilitate to think and analyze freely.