Science education will be destroyed if something that is not science is presented as science. If schoolchildren are incorrectly taught that ID is a scientific theory, it will directly contradict the whole concept of what science is. We are already falling behind other countries in the number of kids who are concentrating in math, science, engineering, etc. Corrupting the whole idea of what's science and what isn't won't help that at all.
"Science education will be destroyed . . ."
It is this kind of ridiculous hyperbole that makes me very skeptical of the evolution community. Science is supposed to be about rigorous inquiry. Teaching competing theories of various scientists will improve science education.
Censorship will weaken science education. This thread also illustrates that the censorship is ideologically motivated. I have seen so many weird lectures on my campus integrating Buddhism and various other metaphysics into evolution, biology and other sciences. I see journals publishing articles on how UFOs dropped of life on planet Earth Billions of years ago.
In all these intances, the chicken littles do not run out and proclaim the sky is falling. Instead, they calmly appreciate the distinct viewpoint of the Dali Lama or whatever peculiar non-Christian guru is mixing science and religion.
Behe is not religious! But because his research could support Christians, we must take great alarm and protect the sacred domain of science which has always worked best when protected from inquiry?!
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
>>>Science education will be destroyed if something that is not science is presented as science. <<<
It survived okay with the presentation of evolution as science.