BOISE -- Members of the Idaho Science Teachers Association have approved an official position against teaching intelligent design in Idaho's public schools.

Rick Alm is the president of the ISTA's board and a science teacher at Bonneville High School.

He says teachers in public schools are charged with teaching methodology that's been approved by the scientific community.

He also says the teachers' group isn't taking a position against teaching religion. But he says under the law, religion has its place, and it's not in the science classroom.

Intelligent design holds that living organisms are so complex they must have been created by some kind of higher being.

Idaho state standards contain no mention of intelligent design.

Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna says he'll leave it up to local school districts to decide whether or not to teach it.