Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Intelligent Design kicked out of Pennsylvania

Kansas may be a lost cause, but sanity still wins out up north...

'Intelligent-design' school board ousted in Penn

Voters on Tuesday ousted a Pennsylvania local school board that promoted an "intelligent-design" alternative to teaching evolution, and elected a new slate of candidates who promised to remove the concept from science classes...

...For the last six weeks, the teaching of intelligent design has been challenged in federal court by a group of Dover parents. They said the concept is a religious belief and therefore may not be taught in public schools, because the U.S. Constitution forbids it. They also argue that the theory is unscientific and so has no place in science classes...

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