The parochial nature of the movement to change all of science is the funniest aspect of it all. ID may have Behe and Dembski as spokesmen and a headquarters in Seattle, but behind the false front it's all Bible Belt YECs. No matter what a few southern US states and some equally undeveloped areas of Australia do, the rest of the world will continue to do real science. The only issue is whether we get left in the dust.
For a couple of generations, we've all understood that the leftists (commies, socialists, etc.) were deliberately dumbing down the schools. Why, suddenly, do "conservatives" want to join in that left-wing effort, to destroy what little remains of the schools? There is nothing conservative about raising a generation of know-nothings.