Intelligent design should not be taught in science classrooms today. The first argument which I have heard and was present in Behe's video comes from this ideal that some things in human biology are irreducibly complex and therefore must have been designed by some sort of intelligence. The problem with this is that you cannot just propose that something must have been designed by intelligence just because we there potentially may be a flaw in a theory. At the very best even if all of Behe's arguments were proven to be impossible to explain due to evolution, he still hasn't setup the foundation of there must be some intelligence behind. This is a common misconception among people who argue for alternative views of origin of the diversity of life other than evolution, it doesn't matter how much you try to poke holes in evolution even if you were to completely disprove it, it doesn't help prove your theory at all. This fallacy is called a false dichotomy and states that either the theory evolution is true or intelligent design is true therefore if we can disprove one theory the other must be true. This simply isn't true in the real world, there are in fact an infinite number of equally plausible explanations to the theory of Intelligent design therefore in order to proposed ID as some sort of reasonable hypothesis we would need to gather data to prove that it ID matches reality better than any of the other countless explanations.
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