Kentucky Governor Urges Teaching of Intelligent Design

Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher does not appear to be convinced by recent defeats in the courts for advocates of teaching intelligent design. In an interview with the Associated Press after his State of the Commonwealth speech on Monday, Fletcher said Kentucky schools should consider teaching intelligent design along with other ideas of how the world began. Explaining his support for this approach, Fletcher said: "Our inalienable rights are based on the self-evident truth of those endowed inalienable rights. And all I was saying is that from my perspective that's not a matter of faith and it's not a matter of religion. It's a matter of something called self-evident truth."