You say that as if it's a bad thing.
It is a bad thing. The United States is the leader in technological innovation in the world, but it's lead is shrinking. Somewhere around half of the scientific and engineering grad students in American schools are foreign-born. Sure, some stay and become American, but more and more are going back home and doing their work there. Too many American kids think their future is in marketing or entertainment or the social sciences.
Science is pretty much responsible for every comfort we have in life. I resent that this ID debate gets equated to/applied to ALL science. I'm an IDer, but I've never had a problem with learning science.