A nail in the coffin of intelligent design?

Those of us who worship reason and science have reason to celebrate today. Judge John Jones has ruled the crazy idea of intelligent design has no place in the science classroom.
Yet, one must take pause to assess the reality of things. Even though this particular battle against superstition has been won, the war may be lost.
The vast majority of Americans polled do not believe in evolution as a stand alone theory to answer the question of how we came to exist. Furthermore, 2/3 (67%) would support teaching intelligent design with evolution in our science classrooms. Prominent leaders such as our president, and senators Frist and McCain have stated their support for intelligent design being taught to our children in science class.
What Americans need to understand is that science plays by certain rules. We call this the scientific method. This glorious method gives us the tools for figuring out everything from how a cell divides to how to make a plane fly. If an idea can't play by the rules of the scientific method, then it's not science.
Perhaps rather than fight and argue over what our children must learn in science class, we should be educating the adults in our country about the scientific method and critical thinking.
Until then, we'll probably see more lawsuits and fights over non-scientific opinions versus scientific theories that refute religious doctrine.