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Originally Posted by photon
Not that I've heard of. Though I'm sure there are Christian schools that add it to their curriculum.
ID's sole purpose (as admitted by some of the people who started it) is to combat evolution and introduce/keep religion in the school and in the minds of children.
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I think the biggest gripe I have with ID and the organizations trying diligently to get it into public schools is that they are aware of the great flaws of ID and that they still don't care about it. They want people to think its a science, they know its not. They want people to think there is a lot of controversy over evolution, there isn't.
They focus often on the same argument that Evolution is just a 'theory' and misuse the word since Science's definition of the word is different than the common usage in the English language.
Its that they feel the end's justify the means; that this heathen Science is hurting their beliefs the must combat it and ID is that strategy.
Its similar to the way Tobacco companies used AD agencies to attempt to convince people that there was no link between smoking and cancer. Their goal from the start was for them to convince the pubic there was a debate amongst scientists about smoking and its health effects. The goal was never to prove them right, they just wanted to give the perception of a debate over smoking, thus delaying the inevitable and getting as much profit while they could.
Much like Global Warming debate, CNN brings on 2 people, 1 that says its real and one that disagrees. Where to be more accurate and fair they should have 10 Scientists on a panel; 9 that say Global Warming is real and 1 that debates its wrong. Goal is to muddy the debates and even stir up partisanship over it, which they've done very successfully in the USA.
Evolution has withstood 150 years of peer debate/review and more importantly has a MOUNTAIN of evidence from many many fields of science; most recently Genetics.
To say Evolution is 'just a theory' is such a propaganda objective of the ID supporters. Their goal is to convince the average non science background person to think "Oh its just a Theory, so obviously it might be wrong."
Its like standing at the bottom rocky area at a huge waterfall, picking up a dry rock and saying "look here is a dry rock, your waterfall theory is wrong, there is no waterfall!"