Not at all, especially if you watch the punditry shows during Prime Time. Bill O'Reilly, who acts like an authority on a wide variety of subjects of which he knows nothing, compared people not wanting ID in Highschool Biology as the Taliban. Tony Snow said something to the affect of, "Since all science is just a rough guess, why not teach it?" On Scarborough Country, Joe frequently talks about this subject. The panel is always stacked in ID's favor, but luckily he has on David Silverman from American Atheists who actually knows something about evolution.
I think the reason ID is treated with kid gloves is because a majority of Americans believe in God and don't understand science.
They think science is an absolute authority, or is at least passing itself off as that, and by not including ID in the classroom they are teaching atheism. Of course, the argument is ludicrous if you understand the scientific endeavor, but sadly most people don't.
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