Our local school district had a widely publicized debate when some Evangelical fool tried to bring I.D. into the science curriculum.

At the time, the Board was mostly conservative. Only one member actually understood the can of worms that they would've opened had they agreed with the I.D. advocates.

Keep in mind this Board had no qualms about being "rogue"; they're currently breaking California law by not giving students the right to medical confidentiality as guaranteed by the state laws. Now the Attorney General of the state is breathing down the district's neck.

Anyway, the I.D. guy lost. You should've heard his arguments: three out of four people support I.D. in schools (of course he never cited a source, for all we knew it was conducted in his church's parking lot). And then a scientist with a PhD in something slammed him, saying science isn't a democracy. He tried to come off as caring about “broadening” the student’s views, but most everyone saw through his façade. On top of it all, he even referred to his planned victory as a “springboard” for other schools. There was clearly an ulterior motive.

The real shame is that over $30,000 was spent on this issue (attorney fees, etc.) when it was clearly driven by political and ideological beliefs. Even students spoke at the board's meeting, in front of hundreds of people and cameras, to say that Darwinism wasn't being taught dogmatically in their classrooms. But more importantly, the students wanted the district to stop being political and focus on education.

To think, all that time and money wasted on something so stupid.

But in a way I think it's great that these creationists are resorting to I.D. It's the ultimate copout, signifying their real stance (Genesis) isn't valid enough, so they resort to some ambiguous stuff about a creator. The movement is clearly dying, especially as even the I.D. mandates gets shot down.

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