I was taught about all those things in high-school science -- along with the ways the scientific method was used to debunk them. It didn't take a lot of class time; and it helped us understand why the scientific method is so important.
You had a good teacher.
The problem we have now is that folks want ID taught not as an example of almost-science or not-science, but as "truth" (it is a belief, not science).
I think it is the implementation of theistic science, designed to end materialistic science.
Read the The Wedge Strategy and tell me if you don't see this as the impetus behind the current ID movement in the US.
I'm really not in a position to judge what the underlying motives, or strategies are. I've been trying to stay out of the substantive debate & confine myself to discussing teaching strategies and the scientific method.