Intelligent Design in Science Class - Sample curriculum please

No, the intermediate step will be to come up with that lesson plan. And to make it look so dissimilar to Of Pandas and People that it can be snuck past the courts. Well, the step of actually getting the "theory" published and vetted in scientific journals might be nice, too. Like plate tectonics, or organic chemistry, or observations of quasars, or how airplane wings give lift had to be.

That would be simplest if they'd remove all the pages from those creto "texts" and put some new pages with factual information in, but I don't think bookbinders work that way. What you're suggesting is precisely what the fine folks behind Of Pandas and People did, and it deservedly was shot down in flames in the court decision at Dover, PA. Changing the names ("God" to "the Designer", for instance) in an intellectually bankrupt text doesn't lessen the bankruptccy in the least.

Then who, pray tell, is this Designer? If she's an Altairian computer programmer, who designed life on her planet? What other than the supernatural could ID be based on, if intelligence must be intelligently designed?