Over the years there has been a disturbing trend, lead primarily by the Christian Fundamentalists, to cast out Darwin's Theory of Evolution from schools. Religion may have served some purpose in early societies with a primitive, ad-hoc moral code, but advances in Western epistemology and philosophy ask us "to question" -- and not take things "on faith." Witness through the Ars-nova, the Rennaissance and the Enlightenment the progress in the human condition on all fronts: morally (save wars and avarice); wealth-wise; and health-wise. It is fair to say that where "religion" has been taken seriously, disasterous consequences have arisen -- people divided along lines of race, creed and class, usually with civil unrest and wars as the end point. Intelligent Design is dangerous on many fronts, then; the replacement of reason by superstitution, the denial of the scientific method, the replacement of the democratic structures of scientific inquiry by fiat and decree. I'm sure more examples could be thought! Insidiously, the end point for this agenda in our schools is the destruction of rational, secular, democratic society and the installation of a Theocracy.