George Will is usually right, but he is wrong on this one.
Ditto for Charles Krauthammer. I have the utmost respect for Krauthammer's political acumen, but he fumbled the ball on this one.
Both of them have fallen for the transparent lie that the only alternative to purely naturalistic evolution is biblical creationism.
If you get a chance, please check out a couple of articles I wrote at
http://RussP.us/IDscience.htm
http://RussP.us/Dawkins.htm
You're arguing apples and oranges. While it's true that biblical creationism is not the "only alternative to purely naturalistic evolution", the fact remains that the push to get ID into the schools is being done almost exclusively by biblical creationists for the purpose of making the schools more "God friendly".
George Will and Krauthammer are concerned about the latter, and the former is irrelevant to that concern.
If you doubt the fundamental (no pun intended) motivations of most members of the "ID movement" are as I describe, sit down and spend a few days reading the testimony in the Kitzmiller trial, for starters.