I literally cannot believe the depths that intelligent design advocates will go into trying to taint science with religion.
As someone who is both religious and a strong defender of scientific integrity, I don't understand why ID advocates insist on forcing non-scientific hypotheses into science.
Every errant political movement has its descent into madness before traveling into oblivion. I believe, thus, that this is right-wing Christianity's last stand. The good news is that it has given scientists and reasonable people of faith an opportunity to have a backbone and stand up for themselves. "Freedom of religion" does not mean a freedom to devalue academia and education, and, by extension, absolute truth.