'Intelligent Design" sounds like something Ikea would do.

This is an interesting article concerning the most dangerous and frightening part of conservatism- the religious Right.

It used to be the case that parents who wanted their child to have a religious education would have to shell out for a private school. Indeed, as most private schools catered to this market, giving your kids better resources and smaller class sizes usually came at the cost of filling their heads with creationist garbage.

In the US this may be reversed. The public schools teach creationism, enough parents will hate this to make secular private schools a profitable niche market.

This has advantages for well-to-do families who believe in evolution. They may now be able to send their kids to private school to launch them higher up the food chain without the worry of having to re-educate them when they got home.

Actually the particularly interesting part of the above linked article is the relation to political correctness and cultural sensitivity. Teaching kids that there was no absolute truth may well have laid the foundations for teaching them something that was absolutely not true.

It's a fight, and if you want to bring up your kids in the secular style you'd better stand by your principles and go into battle for them.