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Kansas Schools Launch "Intelligent Design" Auto Mechanics Class
The Kansas Board of Education has certified an "intelligent design" auto mechanics class that includes alternative theories about what makes cars run. For more on this educational breakthrough, we interviewed auto mechanic Elrod McSnabb, chairman of Citizens for Gooder Education, the grassroots group that persuaded the board to embrace this new approach.
Q. What inspired you to apply intelligent design to auto mechanics?
A. My Bible study teacher was telling us how schools now have to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution. On the way home that night my car started acting funny – choking and sputtering. But I couldn't find nothing wrong. Then I started praying and it smoothed right out. That was a sign. My mission now is to share that knowledge with the next generation of auto mechanic students.
Q. So if a car has an electrical problem, do you just tell students to pray?
A. Ooops, I shouldn't have talked about the praying part. You know, we have to be real careful so liberal judges don't shut us down. We say that the science of auto mechanics is just a theory and that students need to be told about other possibilities.
Q. But doesn't that put your students at a disadvantage?
A. What makes you think your mechanic knows what he's doing? Ever have a lemon? Don't try to tell me that's not the work of the devil. You just have to get right with God.
Q. Is it true your group wants revisions in how other classes are taught?
A. There's intelligent design literature, where we teach kids that there really is only one good book, if you get my drift. We're putting together an intelligent design physics book right now that says gravity might just be the invisible hand of a higher power. Intelligent design journalism warns kids that sometimes there's just one right way to report a story. Every football and basketball player already remembers to thank God when his team wins. And don't forget those abstinence classes where we tell kids that half of all gay male teens have AIDS. I'd say we've won already.
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