"Teach the Controversy!" Facepalm*

[Asmodee]

The "Teach the controversy" movement was just one more dishonest attempt on the part of the religious right to get creationism into schools by pretending that intelligent design was being unfairly treated by a biased scientific community and that it was a real scientific theory and not just more of the same creationist crap. They pretended that they only wanted to be able to present their argument and not being allowed that was unfair. The reality was that they had been presenting their argument for years to the scientific community and it didn't pass muster there. Their intention was to get it accepted as a science so that they could teach it in schools. When that failed they moved on to trying to get it into schools through another avenue, the pretense that it was being unfairly treated in the scientific community. The reality is that they just wanted to get it to the target that was intended all along, impressionable young minds less capable of critical thought than your average scientist. Even creationists know that if you're going to introduce magical thinking you have to do it to an impressionable young mind. No intelligent adult is going to accept that magic is real just because some moldy old book says it is.