[Ichneumon]

["And in fact,” Meyer said, “it's a science-based argument that may have implications that are favorable to a theistic worldview, but the argument is based on scientific evidence."]

Exactly! Both theories are based in science. Students have a right to learn both theories and decide for themselves.

I regret to inform you that there is actually no "theory of ID". So it might be a bit difficult to have students learn it.

People are overreacting to ID as if it is proposing a return to the belief the world is flat.

In the manner in which the ID movement is attempting to undermine actual scientific discoveries and methodology, it might as well be.

[King Prout]

just a side note: it would be rather difficult to "return" to the belief that the Earth is flat, as that notion was developed in the 1800's IIRC by a Frenchman and Nathaniel Hawthorn as an Enlightenment slam against religious perversion/retardation of knowledge. No evidence exists that any educated person since (at least) the Classical Period believed the world was flat.