[AnnoyedOne]

Unsupported assertions? I can show you LOTS of unsupported assertions which are explored by the scientific community. They are known as Scientific Hypothesis, and are the very FIRST step of scientific exploration.

[curiosity]

They are known as Scientific Hypothesis, and are the very FIRST step of scientific exploration.

The key difference is that hypotheses are falsifiable. ID isn't.

[Central Scrutiniser]

[aNYCguy]

Unsupported assertions? I can show you LOTS of unsupported assertions which are explored by the scientific community.

Yet you'll notice that they're not taught in school. The purpose of pre-college education is to give a brief overview of the prevailing, accepted bodies of knowledge in many different subjects.

You talk a lot about how the dark matter hypothesis is analogous to ID, yet you will not tend to find schoolkids being taught about dark matter.