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Essentially, intelligent design is an attempt to disguise the issue. See, teaching a specific religion in a public school is unconstitutional, so the intelligent design proponents simply remove any specific mention of God from the actual discourse. In His place they use an anonymous 'creator' with no elaboration.
Which would all be well and good, except that creation science, well, isn't. Science relies on the idea of falsifiable theories. A theory needs to be able to be disproved in order for it to be valid scientifically and there's simply no way to prove or disprove intelligent design short of the Almighty Himself weighing in on the issue. Therefore, whether it's swaddled in religious trappings or not, intelligent design simply doesn't belong in a science classroom.
In terms of exactly what the syllabus would cover... well, you've got me. The anonymous creator who may or may not be God as He is described in Judeo-Christian dogma created everything and nothing new can be created without His permission. The end.
I swear, mostly you bunch seem alright, but every so often something like this comes along and makes me glad I'm not a US citizen.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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