Intelligent Design vs. Evolution

Okay, lets face it, accepting science is just as much of a leap of faith as religion is. However, the difference is crucial. Religion is personal, it appeals to what every human being wants: acceptance in our universe. Science, on the other hand, is purely factual and spends no time explaining its relevance to the individual. Herein lies the problem: do I believe in Intelligent Design, or do I accept that we evolved from monkeys? Personally, if I wasn't allowed any gray areas, I would have to choose the latter.  With that being said, claiming either of these options as the whole truth would be ludicrous. 

While I acknowledge that teaching Darwin's Evolution in schools is not the greatest idea (due to the lack of evidence NOT being recognized), I also think that teaching Intelligent Design in the same manner would not be right. For instance, Intelligent Design advocates have claimed that the complexity of an organism is evidence for the existence of God. Wait, this is supposed to be self-evident? Well, what if it isn't? Are they going to phone the inquisition on me? There are far too many leaps involved in this version of creationism for it to be taken seriously by any true scientist. These claims cannot be tested, and they propose no new hypotheses unique to them. At least Darwin had SOME support to his claims. 

I'm not proposing that somebody conjure up an accurate description answering all the big questions immediately (although it would be nice), I am merely pointing out that teaching anything as fact when it isn't is stupid. Now THAT, Intelligent Design team, should be self-evident. We shouldn't be teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution the way we do now (as everything but a theory). We shouldn't be proposing creationism stories, yes that is all they are, to be taught in schools. We should be laying all of it out, take it or leave it, for students to decide for themselves as soon as they are able. Of course this plan of mine is assuming that we have also figured out a way to ensure that we have prepared students to make their own EDUCATED decisions, but that is a completely separate issue.