>But what disturbs me about this whole case is labelling all of "ID" in it's many variants as religious. I think that sets bad precedent and is too wide of a ruling.

Personally, the concept of ID is interesting. If one accepts that there is a controlling force (CF) in life, it would appear from the evolutionary evidence that the speed at which CF operates is quite slow, limited to the ability to change DNA, replicate the experiment to a meaningful sample size, and learn from the results.

But that isn't the view of ID that the creationists are trying to get into schools. From what I've read, almost all variations of ID are religious, and universally reject evolution as a theory for the origin of life. Perhaps I'm wrong. Regardless, I tend to agree with the school board. Schools need to present plausible, scientifically-tested theory, not "well it could have happened this way" ideas.