Well the trial is over and the verdict is in. A US Federal court has banned Intelligent Design from the biology classroom on the grounds that it violates the constitutional ban on teaching religion in public schools.

It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy.

We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board’s real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom.

This is the same problem that Creationism ran up against in 1987 and resulted in it going underground to re-emerge as Intelligent Design. No doubt this will be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, and although Bush has tried stacking it with far right-wingers, you’d have to assume that common sense will prevail.