Common descent is neither here nor there. It doesn't affect me one way or the other. Activist courts do.
If the Dover school board thought that way, there would have been no interference with the science curriculum and no court case.
I have been checking this on FR for about six months now and have found only a couple of "ID" supporters who openly accept common descent. The majority of FReepers on these threads do not accept common descent and are surprised to find people like Behe take common descent for granted.
The fight over mechanisms will eventually come down to molecular biology and mathematics.