Fighting ID through college admissions

John Cole tells Kansas Highschool Students to pay attention to a story about a boy from an evangelical high school whose courses won't be accepted for college admissions:

A lawyer for the Association of Christian Schools International, Wendell Bird, said the Calvary concerns surfaced two years ago when the admissions board scrutinized more closely courses that emphasized Christianity. In the last year, the board has rejected courses like Christianity’s Influence in American History, Special Provenance: Christianity and the American Republic, Christianity and Morality in American Literature and a biology course using textbooks from the Bob Jones University Press and A Beka Book, conservative Christian publishers.

The officials rejected the science courses because the curriculum differed from "empirical historical knowledge generally accepted in the collegiate community," the suit said. Calvary was told to submit a secular curriculum instead. Courses in other subjects were rejected because they were called too narrow or biased.

Intelligent Design can suffer worse defeats than a simple court ruling saying it can't be taught as science. For one, it can get such a ruling as a result of a backfiring initiative of "unusually clueless champions," as Economist magazine called the Dover school board. But say it is ruled unconstitutional. That could set up a situation where schools that teach it are dismissed by college admissions boards. As long as the admissions process is in the hands of professors who understand science, something like it's bound to happen. A defeat of Intelligent Design in the courts rather than the market place of ideas would be far more satifying than a mere court defeat.

Unfortunately, an Intelligent Design movement powerful enough to force itself on highschool teachers would be a movement powerful enough to force itself on college professors. But we can always dream...