TOPIC - Due 15 March - Real Science Versus Intelligent Design

Physics, chemistry and biology as branches of science provide reasonably accurate theories that describe the universe and everything contained within it. We as a species have made giant strides in attempting to gain full understanding of our surroundings - both at the macro and micro scales - and are rapidly, at least in terms of the rate of advancement compared to how long we have existed as homo sapiens, closing in on theories that provide us with the answers to how we came to be and where we are going to be in the future.

For some people, the hard work of such luminaries as Darwin and Hubble is thought to be nothing more than the claptrap effusions of men harbouring blasphemous agendas against the Church. These people are known as Creationists (or more commonly, twats) and the relatively new method of communicating their ideas is through Intelligent Design, the so-called science of Creationism.

Now, I'm happy for these faux scientists to have their own theories so long as they do not impinge on real scientific principles. Unfortunately - nay scarily - Intelligent Design is being proposed as a complete replacement of Darwin's much celebrated Theory of Evolution in the school curricula of some states in America.

So, gentlemen, your thoughts please on these recent developments and the need for educational monopoly by exponents of Intelligent Design.

1,000 words, due 15 March.