hmmmmmm how much has all of this nonsense (intelligent design)

cost i wonder? not just monetarily but in the education of our children?

Ohio drops doubts about evolution
School board changes science curriculum

By Stephanie SimonFebruary 15, 2006
Three years after it first encouraged science teachers to raise doubts about evolution, the Ohio Board of Education reversed course yesterday, voting 11-4 to drop a curriculum standard that became a model for several other states.
Since 2002, Ohio's 10th-graders have been required to learn that "scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory." The theory of evolution - which holds that all life on Earth descended from a common ancestor - was the only scientific discipline singled out for critical analysis.
Mainstream scientists opposed that curriculum standard at the time. But they did not threaten a lawsuit or publicly force the issue. In the past two months, however, opposition to the standard re-emerged.
First, Ohio board members took note of a federal judge's pro-evolution ruling in Dover, Pa., in December. The judge declared that it was illegal for the school board to require teachers to introduce "intelligent design," the concept that life is too complex to have evolved by random mutation.
Then a group opposing Ohio's standards obtained documents showing that state Department of Education staff and outside scientists vigorously condemned - even ridiculed - a model lesson plan that was supposed to train 10th-graders to critically analyze evolution. These experts described the lesson plan as grounded in religious accounts of the world's creation, rather than in science. ......