#####The best reason for oppose teaching ID in science class is it will put a religious claim on the dissecting table. When religion tries to play by the rules of science, it tends to lose. Whatever you believe about miracles, they are shy about leaving evidence. I don't think you want religious beliefs subjected to the requirement that they must be supported by evidence.#####
That's a very good point.
#####I'm just pointing out that where quota systems exist, groups will push and shove for advantage. I don't see this as having anything to do with the establishment clause.#####
But the Harvard incident does show that PC politics can trump science. The Harvard science faculty would have risen up in outrage at a suggestion that critics of evolution be given a few minutes of time in freshman Biology, but they quietly capitulated when feminists denied the existence of scientific data on male-female brain differences. The hapless Harvard president, who had merely suggested such brain differences as one possible reason for the male dominance of fields such as math and physics, had to apologize and recant while feminists from the Harvard faculty went on national news shows and denounced any reference to such evidence as sexism and oppression.
Sad but true. We see it in the polls about ID, as well.