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I'm not "blaming" anyone, just enjoying the rich, dark irony here. We're finally getting around to bringing religious talk into the science classroom, just like the Discovery Institute has been pushing for all along, and what does the Discovery Institute guy complain about? That religion doesn't belong in the classroom! Well, he taketh away with that hand, but the DI is only too willing to give with the other - he's just upset that it's the wrong sort of religion in the science classroom. You're not supposed to bring in religious folk to support evolution, you're supposed to bring it in to attack evolution.

Well, creationists can't have it both ways, although Lord knows that won't stop them from trying. Either religion goes in, and they learn to live with it when the "wrong sort" finds its way in front of the kids, or we agree that religion doesn't belong in the science classroom, in which case creationism is right out. Oh, sure, occasionally you'll get ignorant objections that there's already some sort of "religion" in the classroom, but those come from uneducated people who don't know about and don't care about the difference between methodological naturalism and full-on materialism, so we don't have to waste any time answering to those too addled to understand what exactly it is they object to.