Quote: a transparent sham created to sneak religious teachings into high school science curricula.
Why is it a sham? Lots of things overlap in this world. Since when are parents to give up all responsibility for their children's education?
Many scientists are divided on this issue. Science isn't served by dominance of 1 area of science. Science is much too complicated and interrelated with other areas of science to hold one aspect of science as iconic over another. Besides science is almost constantly under revision. Do you think everything we are taught is always correct? Aren't people constantly learning, relearning, applying and re-applying. People can't find the mistakes if you don't teach everything. Besides what if a discovery spins off from the teaching of intelligent design?
An excerpt: "Darwin himself set the standard when he acknowledged, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html