Well, no matter what side of the evolution/ID debate you are on, what's wrong with it as a college elective course? Hopefully it promotes critical thinking, discussion, etc., in a more learned atmosphere. This is certainly preferable to confusing 8th and 9th graders with what is a much more scientifically detailed debate, which is whether there are legitimate scientific questions about evolution.
I concur. It's a hopeful sign for Cornell. The dominance of colleges and universities by woefully ignorant liberals has to end sometime, and this may be an early indicator of change.
I agree the merits or demerits of Intelligent Design (or for that matter Probabilistic Design) can not be rationally or even adequately discussed at the middle school or high school level. In general teachers at these levels are too poorly trained in science to do any more then rote teach facts out of a textbook. That's a hard enough problem considering how bad textbooks are at that level.