The bad theology of ID worsens...

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From Panda's Thumb: in National Review Online, Prof Lee Strang "concludes with advice on how future school boards can more effectively break the law:

we can encourage our school boards to be circumspect if they decide to include a discussion of intelligent design in the science classroom. Instead of presenting overtly religious arguments for intelligent design, present the strong—explicitly scientific—claims put forward by intelligent-design proponents such as the Discovery Institute.... Then...federal judges will have a more difficult time declaring teaching intelligent design unconstitutional.

Yes; if you improve the quality of your counterfeiting, it will be harder to detect you. Note that Strang is not suggesting that people amend the Constitution—which would be the honorable thing to do. No, he’s giving advice on how to violate it more effectively.

Worse than that, even, Strang is advocating that Christian people deny their Lord. Rather than openly acknowledge one’s religious motivation and religious beliefs, he counsels his readers to pretend not to be Christians, to foreswear their savior, and to bear false witness that they’re really just doing a secular thing. Perhaps, at this festive season of the year, it would be well to remind the good professor of Matthew 10:32-33: “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.”"

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if you improve the quality of your counterfeiting, it will be harder to detect you.

Except for the part where people do tend to figure these things out fairly quickly.

he counsels his readers to pretend not to be Christians, to foreswear their savior, and to bear false witness

There is a group - I'm not going to call them Christians, although that's what they call themselves - for whom this is SOP. The judge in Dover slammed them publicly for it, but there is an awful lot of dominionist "evangelism" that DEPENDS on lying to your audience to sucker them in for the altar call.

It appears to be an ends-justifies-the-means theology.

IMO, I wonder if their Bibles have Matthew at all. Isn't chapter 20 the one about not making a big public show of your faith?