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Science isn't morality and it isn't law.

Nobody's forcing you to accept evolutionary theory. If you don't want the latest antibiotics because you don't think selective pressure will result bacterial resistance to the old antibiotics, nobody is forcing you to buy them.

Nobody is forcing you to accept the principle of Electromagnetism. If you think it all happens by magic that is fine, so long as you pay your electricity bill on time.

And Scientific theories aren't so much about being "right" or "wrong" but about being useful and useless.

If Bohr's model of the atom is complete bunk and absolutely "wrong" it doesn't change the fact that it is a highly useful theory that allows one to better observe and predict the universe and explain phenomena.

And ID "theory" may be absolutely 100% right but it is still absolutely 100% useless for the purpose of observing and predicting the universe, although it does have a crude simplicity in its explanations of phenomena.

I personally do believe that the laws of the universe themselves were designed, but that God needn't be mucking with his creation all the time; however I recognize that my feelings about the symmetry of the universe are ABSOLUTLY NOT scientific observations.

Nobody's forcing you to accept evolutionary theory.

This is not the issue. I do think that theories of evolution (there are few variants and they are evolving) are a decent approximation of what took place (and I do not want to force anyone to accept them)

But the key issue in my eyes is the role of science as the authority. If we put religion or science as the supreme authority than we forgo the the national sovereignty and representative republic.

In first case we will have traditional theocracy in second we will have scientistic bureaucracy similar to the Soviet system.

The question of ultimate authority cannot be escaped. And in this world we are doomed to have imperfect answers/resolutions of this question.

United States existed and did well for generations before evolution became the PC dogma. I do not think that the world will end if in some part of USA the creationism is taught in the schools. The only offense will be to those who cannot stand such "sacrilege" to the religion of science.

Nobody's forcing you to accept evolutionary theory.

Technically, the student taking a test on evolutionary theory is forced to accept it -- or is at least forced to fake acceptance of it -- for sake of his grades. A student who does not believe a chicken evolved from a tyrannosaurus would not receive a passing grade by checking that question 'false' on a quiz. Those who fear a theocracy should also fear a scientocracy.