If you're interested in the fight to keep creationism out of the public schools, you'll want to read Sahotra Sarkar's article in the American Prospect on the next creationist strategy. Sahotra (who teaches philosophy and biology here at UT-Austin, and who often engages in big public debates against creationists) thinks that the recent Pennsylvania court ruling against Intelligent Design will be a major obstacle to their attack on biology textbooks. He sees them switching to a new strategy, just as they moved from Young Earth Creationism to Intelligent Design after a devastating 1987 Supreme Court ruling.
This new strategy involves "fine-tuning" arguments, according to which we have evidence for God's existence in the fact that the constants that figure in the laws of physics are set just right to make possible the existence of life. If gravity were weaker or reversed, for example, all the particles from the big bang might have just flown apart and not come together to make stars, planets, and living things. That the laws of the universe are set up in one of the few ways that supports life is supposed to be evidence of the existence of a divine creator who set everything up just right. The creationists will try to get this argument into physics textbooks and thus force religion into physics classes.
