From the article:
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PHILADELPHIA - Evangelical Christians, buoyed by the re-election of
President Bush, are turning American schools into a battleground over
whether evolution explains the origins of life or whether nature was
designed by an all-powerful force.

In at least 18 states, campaigns have begun to make public schools
teach “intelligent design” — a theory that nature is so complex it
could only have been created by design — alongside Charles Darwin’s
theory of evolution.

“It’s pretty clear that there is a religious movement behind
intelligent design,” said Steve Case, chairman of the Science
Standards Committee, a group of educators that advises the Kansas
Board of Education. The board will decide later this year whether to
include intelligent design in biology classes.

Some scientists who espouse the theory say intelligent design does not
question that evolution occurred, but how it occurred: They believe
more was at play than random mutation and natural selection. The
theory, they insist, does not support the religious concept of a
creator.

Those who advocate giving it equal treatment in schools have a
different interpretation.

“Intelligent design promotes a rational basis for belief in God,” said
John Calvert, managing director of the Kansas-based advocacy group
Intelligent Design Network Inc.
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