Dogma doesn’t build better medical devices; good science does. - Eugenie Scott

Thus, it seems clear that intelligent design should be considered a religion for First Amendment purposes.

The first problem with this argument (“teach the controversy”) is that there is no scientific controversy about evolution, and the second problem is that intelligent design doesn’t qualify as a scientific theory.

Significantly, the first publication to use the phrase intelligent design was not a theoretical paper but a high school textbook, Of Pandas and People! Ordinarily, one does the research first and then produces the textbook.