Religious explanations are also just theories - crappy, primitive, unscientific theories.
The Dover school board, by the way, did not cut back the teaching of Darwinian evolution in its schools
The judge offered a far less flattering description of the school board members who voted for ID...and the voters turned them out of office.
"THOSE WHO NOW OCCUPY the public square will fight to keep possession of it. The advocates of Darwinian materialism believe that they are in possession of The Truth, and are perfectly willing to invoke the power of the state to suppress competing views, as the Dover suit shows."
"For many centuries, the best explanation of the origin of life and the lawfulness of the universe was thought to be design, which was not considered inconsistent with science at all. Matthew Arnold, nevertheless, presciently foresaw the direction the tides would flow in the 19th century, and well into the 20th. But of the three theories that seemed so potent during that period -- Marxism, Freudianism, Darwinism -- two have already been washed away by history. Will Darwin's theory be next? If so, the materialist worldview is at stake, and the materialists know it.
And that's why intelligent design is such a big deal."