Creationism and “intelligent design” are absurd, and they are the same thing. The development if ID basically moved in five drafts, systematically replacing the word creation with the words intelligent design. It’s all the same thing and it is not science. It is religion, and has no place in a science class. Admittedly, we don’t know how life began, but the argument in ID is basically “we don’t know, therefore, god did it” and that argument is so closed to actual intellectual thought. As an atheist, I look at science with the idea that “we don’t know, so let’s do some research and tests to see if we can find better answers.” It would be a farce to say that this movie is about free speech. The right-wingers make the argument that it is about equal exposure, that people shouldn’t just be limited to one viewpoint but should be exposed to them all. That is, when it is a matter of their viewpoint being excluded. They say children shouldn’t be taught just evolution, they should see alternative theories. However, if there were Christian schools that just taught creationism, which there are, then the hypocrite republicans wouldn’t have a problem with that at all. Same goes for gay couples adopting. They say children should have the opportunity to see what the alternative is like, having two heterosexual parents. But the other side of their argument is that children with two opposite sex heterosexual parents should be exposed to same-sex couples. Republicans just choose to ignore that half of what their argument really says. Again, all hypocrisy. Follow their argument to it’s very end, and logically it collapses down around itself.