Is it Intelligent to Teach Intelligent Design?

This post is a bit off topic compared to what I attempt to write about but I felt that it needed to be said.
Today I feel as if it is the start of something that no one will be able to stop or slow down. In the town of Dover, PA it is now a community devided by one arguement, "Should Intelligent Design be allowed to be taught in science classes?" Intelligent Design is the idea that organisms on this planet are so complex that the only answer is that a higher being had designed them. To me this is a bunch of rubbish; that is just an answer that someone that believes in god would say. Last night I watched a special on Dateline where there was a mother who had given birth to conjoined twins in the Phillipines. They were joined at the top of their skulls making it impossible for either of them to do anything but lay on their backs. The mother decided to search for a Doctor to do an operation that had never been performed before, which is to have the two boys surgically seperated. The reason that these surgical procedures are so dangerous is because many of the main bodily functions are performed by one of the two twins making it almost impossible for both of them to survive. They also shared a couple of major arteries including the artery that supplies blood from the heart to the brain. Something this complex has never been performed before with success but the Doctor who had decided to perform this surgery was very optomistic about the procedure. He explained the operation would incompass a listing of surgeries that they had performed singlely, just not altogether. To me that shows a flaw in the idea of Intelligent Design where it states only a higher being could have designed all the earths organisms. If it so complex and only a higher being can design them how come we have been able to understand and perform miracles such as this surgery without a god performing the surgery.
The group of parents that are all for Intelligent Design state that their children should be taught "alternatives" to the evolution theory. That is not difficult to grasp but what I don't understand is that if specific parents would like their children to learn something different or in combination with what is being taught in school have those parents teach their children at home what they think is being overlooked. The one thing that keeps popping into my mind is some of the beliefs I have towards any followers of any god. I feel as if many of them have actually been completely fooled into believing because someone made them very afraid of this cruel world and if they do not have faith they are completely at the mercy of it. To me it is their belief that blinds them from grasping such topics as evolution because there is no other "alternative" to what they believe. Another thing I don't understand if someone is to teach Intelligent Design in a science class how is a teacher supposed to answer questions such as, "Why does a spider have eight legs and an ant have six?" The response I would imagine someone to say, "It is because a higher being decided it to be that way." That's not very scientific is it? no. This idea is an answer to people who don't want to look deeper, who don't want to understand why things happen, or can't because they are not intelligent enough to grasp some of the concepts we call science. If you want to have someone teach this theory don't have a science teacher teach the theory because to me it is unscientifical and an excuse to not ask more questions.
By having a school board say that it is mandatory to learn Intelligent Design which is based on believing in a higher being to me is saying that it is ok teach about god in schools. That idea goes against the seperation of church and state. Trying to authorize the teaching of such ideas is a way for those who believe in god to get back into the classroom and try to influence students who are young and impressionable. The next arguement is that we have freedom of speech and that is fine but that just means if someone wants to talk about it go ahead and do so but to make it part of a curriculum is going a bit beyond freedom of speech. In conclusion I feel if they make it legally ok to teach Intelligent Design we are just falling down steps we have already climbed.