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Originally Posted by SteelyLoins
Personally, I don't care if someone believes in ID, evolution, or reincarnation. I haven't seen ANY of them proved or disproved.
The logical course of action would be to teach all three, and maybe a few more of them in schools, in order that the students are exposed to as many of the widespread beliefs as possible.
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At some point, quantity of theories becomes detrimental to quality and depth. Being exposed to as many beliefs as possible is a regression in intellectual history because so many ideas have already been proven false: we needn't take the flat-earthers seriously anymore because their ideas have been so thoroughly discredited.
But, you respond, ID has not been proven false yet. This is, of course, true. By definition. That is, ID is (as the OP mentioned) not falsifiable. There is nothing that could happen that would prove ID is false, whereas evolution could be proven false by (for example) the existence of a fossil record that indicated that all forms of life, regardless of complexity, have existed since life began on earth.
The reason that ID should not be taught in science class is that ID is a non-scientific theory that appears to be contradicted by the available evidence. Until I see evidence that God created the Ebola virus, AIDS, smallpox, and all the other delightful lifeforms we encounter on Earth, I will continue to believe the evidence supporting evolutionary biology. Religious authorities are not qualified to determine the accuracy of biological claims.