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fringe, from my point of view, if the religions et al keep challenging people about the strength and longevity of faith versus the farcical and often changing ideas of science, then why cannot science do the same in return? (from a scientific reasoned standpoint of course!) It is no different to challenging ones own faith in the light of all you have learned - if you can't justify it to yourself, it seems that you must require the support of a group behind you to force the notions upon all others in the hope that you can follow their lead.
The point of the argument in any case is the definition of 'what defines education', and any information, even unfactual, is useful provided it is given in the appropriate context. The problem here is that with restrictions on specific religious ideas being put forward in general education (ie state) schools, the ID approach appears to be nothing more than a foot in the back door for the old dogs playing new tricks - ie the context of ID teaching as proposed is not appropriate.
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