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that's a gross generalisation about philosphers ;-)
I studied Philosophy during the Enlightenment period (between the Renaissance and the Industrial age) at university and, particularly with Descartes, philosphy was about a way of thinking, and the Discourse on Method was essentially about the Scientific Method (maths is true because 1+1 is always equal to 2, pure reason, no room for doubt, sound familiar?)
And the great political works of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Rousseau, Paine, and Burke had very little mention of god, nor did Montesque, Diderot, Voltaire, Kant, this other one who wrote about punishment systems, can't remember his name though. Philosphy is a massively broad subject, possibly more so than any other.
That being said, Intelligent design appears to be nothing more than the Christian church knee-jerking trying to stop the spread the athiest scientists (yes, I am athiest, very athiest) and has *no* place in science classes whatsoever.
In England we get Religious Education classes (getting taught everyone's creation myths and belief structures etc) but I'm not even sure it belongs there as it's a new thing and isn't a canonical belief for any christian sect (as far as I'm aware) although it is about the only place it would fit in modern carricular. I don't say this to insult anyone, my Grandfather was a vicar so I was raised to respect everyone's religious beliefs, also, this RE thing gets taught in our equivelent of high school, the American concept of keeping religion out of schools completely was a mistake in my opinion as being aware of the nature of other's beliefs is important (don't serve beef to hindus or pork to jews etc)
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