The bill's sole sponsor, Daniel L. Hooker (R) ... also recently introduced bills that would, if enacted, permit the display of the Ten Commandments on public buildings and grounds (A08073), declassify sexual orientation from civil right status (A07916), and prohibit the solemnization of same-sex marriages (A07723).I don't object to some of those items, but when he adds creationism to his portfolio, he looks a double-agent from DU, trying to make Republicans look like idiots.
I think the use of the term intelligent design is appropriate. Whether or not intelligent design existed before the "dawn of man" or not, it exists now and they teach it in school already. It has names such as biochemistry and genetic engineering. When Monsanto creates a type of corn with a vaccine naturally embedded in its genetic code, they did not do it by evolution. They did it by intelligently looking at the laws that govern the structure of living things and "designing" new variants. They did not put it in a field and wait 100 million years and hope a solution presented itself. Intelligent design is here today. This is not a subject for the past alone. Those who refuse to see this are the modern equivelent of the Flat Earth Society. There is no religion in this. This is what we in the 21st century like to call Science.