Having an interest in intelligent design is fine. Studying it is fine. Fostering it on impressionabel kids as science is not. I enjoy listening to the Art Bell show, but that doesnt mean that I think the transistor was created by backengineering alien technology from Roswell. And Im going to give credit in school to the three PhDs at Bell Labs.
You're right about Art Bell. Now there's entertainment.
ID has some intellectually stimulating ideas in it. It would be good for kids to be exposed to. I think it makes biology much more interesting than evolutionary theory - it is sort of like the difference between the mechanical universe, and the quantum world, in the physical sciences.