Why cannot both Design and Descent be taught in science classes

Looking through the proposal in the OP, it lacks what almost all such attempts lack: an attempt to explain the facts of biology. For example:

  1. Why a nested hierarchy? Why don’t we see common designs swapped around in a pattern that isn’t a nested hierarchy?
  2. Why is there hundreds of millions of years worth of fossils for complex life? Why are they found in the order they are found in?
  3. Why does the phylogeny based on DNA correlate with the phylogeny based on morphology?
  4. Why do humans and other primates share the same ERV’s at the same locations?
  5. Why do transitions outnumber transversions when we compare the SNP’s between species?
  6. Why is there more sequence conservation in exons than in introns?

These are just a few off the top of my head. I don’t see how the concepts in the OP can be used to even start to approach these questions.

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