[longshadow]

Very cute -- but there is much more to intelligent design theory than than say the Flat Earth Society.

That doesn't invalidate the analogy.

Both are alternative attempts to explain phenomona, neither of which are embraced by most mainstream experts in their respective fields.

Here's another example: should we clutter up the minds of High School science students by teaching them Alternative Anti-relativity Theories? There isn't even time to do a good job of teaching them about Relativity as it is; if we take more time away to present them with "alternatives" that are NOT embraced by the vast majority of experts in the field, we do that student a grave dis-service.

For the moment, ID isn't even a scientific theory. It makes no useful predictions, it provides no explanatory framework, and it is not falsifiable. Hence, it isn't a theory.

[The Man]

Well, since the theory of evolution is not falsifiable, I suppose that we shouldn't teach that in schools either because it is not a real scientific theory.