Don't forget us Jews!

It's not just right-wing Christians who wish to promote an anti-scientific agenda and instead substitute religious indoctrination in the public schools. Some Orthodox Jews are eagerly yelling "me too!" towards their Christian brothers-in-arms.

I may be too harsh, though, since even some of the participants in the Jewish Intelligent Design conference are making statements that would probably get a Southern Baptist tossed out the front door of his or her church:

Some experts are trying to work out middle positions that respect both science and scripture. Gerald Schroeder, the Aish speaker, reads Genesis symbolically, saying that human bodies evolved from prehuman hominids, but the human soul was created instantaneously.

On the other hand, some participants sounds like they came straight from the Kansas School Board:

Lipskar met head-on the suggestions by some that intelligent design is meant as a "back door" to putting religion in schools. "It's not a back door, it's a front door!" he said. "But the objective is not to make people religious. It's to make them understand that the world was put into place by an intelligent being. We are not random chemical reactions."

It is worth noting that although their numbers are growing, Orthodox Jews represent only about 20% of all Jews in America, and many of those belong to the "Modern Orthodox" movement, which, while adhering to a strict interpretation of scripture, are comfortable with science and the modern world and generally support the separation of synagogue and state.

Hat Tip: Red State Rabble.