This is not a legal or political issue!

Intelligent Design, that is. It should be part of science that nothing is ever completely proven. There have been occasions where people announce the end of science because everything there was to know had been discovered. It never turns out to be true, though.

Science like other fields of endeavor is subject to fads, and our system provides doctoral students lots of incentives to debunk old theories. There are all kinds of cases where the scientific dogmatists of one era have poured abuse on some new idea or theory, only to have it verified over time, making them look like fools.

That point should be taught to science students. All students should be taught critical thinking skills, including logic, fallacies and rhetorical tricks. All you'd need for a textbook would be a typical evening of broadcast tv. Intelligent design is based on the common sense that when you find a pocket watch on the path, you don't assume it just self-assembled there. The argument has been made against evolution that the variety of life on earth is like blowing up a print shop and producing the King James Bible. However, that view should not be taught as proven or true, but merely as a question or a setting into which Darwin's theories came forth.

I personally believe that evolution is the means by which creation takes place, i.e. that God's power is scientific. That he is limited by laws and principles in the same way we are, but not necessarily all of the same ones.