Using ID as a teaching tool

PZ Myers makes some interesting point about using ID in the classroom to illustrate how science works, as well as basic concepts in biology. I’m surprised that more secondary and university teachers don’t do this. Science should be taught as a method, not as a dry collection of facts… and if a pseudoscience like ID can be used (and demolished) in that cause, so much the better.

There’s a fine line to be trod here, to be sure. ID proponents are desperate to frame their attempts to force-feed their religion to students as part of a ‘controversy’, where no such controversy exists. It would be a capital mistake to ‘debate’ ID, as there’s nothing to debate: ID is religious dogma masquerading as science, and cannot be ‘debated’ on scientific terms. Nevertheless, a thoughtful teacher can make good use of the claims of ID to demonstrate how real science is performed, and how pseudosciences can be recognized as such.