PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON
RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
Yeah, we wouldn't want anybody to be persecuted for their beliefs, now would we, Zed?
This would be laughable, if it wasn't seriously threatening the science education standards in this country.
ID was thoroughly and publicly debunked by the Kitzmiller case. It had its day in court, with a conservative judge at the bench. The Discovery Institute put its best foot forward, and they were promptly and justly humiliated. "Breathtaking inanity", anyone?
...based on the faculty member’s or student’s conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design...
WHAT RESEARCH? The cdesignproponentists have been doing their best to short-circuit the scientific method for decades. They push for public debates on the subject, but actively avoid criticism from experts. Never once have they produced so much as a single independently peer-reviewed paper, and when they are actually called on to defend their conclusions, they cry foul. They try to use legal means to demand that their beliefs be equated with scientific fact. This isn’t science.
Can anyone name a scientific discovery that was specifically achieved through public debate? When was the last time we “taught the controversy” in a public science class?
...or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms.
Alternate theories such as, perhaps, the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Astrology?
What's that, Zed? That isn't what you meant?
Well, then, what *did* you mean?