The case for intelligent design as a religious proposition is overwhelming, Clearly, no valid secular purpose can be derived from those facts.

Intelligent design does not belong in a high school biology class. ... It is an inherently religious doctrine that is a modern form of creationism, and this shell game has to end. This board wanted to trash evolution, not to teach it. It wanted to impose its religious views on others.

Its essential religious nature does not change whether it is called 'creation science' or 'intelligent design' or 'sudden emergence theory. The shell game has to stop.

Intelligent design isn't science. It's old theology.

Make no mistake [board members] knew intelligent design was a form of creationism when they added it to the curriculum.

Board members in starkly religious terms changed the science curriculum to advance a specific religious viewpoint.