School Board Promoting Intelligent Design Defeated in Dover, Pennsylvania

From Reuters:

"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.

The board of Dover Area School District in south-central Pennsylvania lost eight of its nine incumbents in an upset election that surprised even the challengers, who had been hoping for a bare majority to take control of the board.

The new board, which includes teachers, opposed the incumbents' policy of including intelligent design in science classes.

The ousted board was the first school board in the country to implement such a policy. The challengers also criticized what they called arrogance and secrecy by the incumbent board.

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.

Bryan Rehm, one of the winning board members and a former teacher at Dover High School, said the new board will hold a public meeting to decide the precise future of the policy. He said intelligent design will no longer be a part of the science curriculum, regardless of how the court rules."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051109/sc_nm/election_usa_evolution_dc

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If you want "Intelligent Design" taught to your children, why don't you just enroll them in Sunday School in your church? That way, everyone wins.
The base argument of these fools pushing this concept as a sciense is the claim that evolution (conveniently named Darwinism so it, too, can sound like an evil religion) somehow disputes or discounts theories of intelligent design.
It's so refreshing to know, outside the increasingly stupid places like Kansas and, say, Texas, that people are wise enough to realize how simple it is to remove idiots and replace them with responsible adults.

Don't you think the money "spent" on this case would have been better spent towards the students in this district?

idolatry!

C - this will save the money of paying lawyers to defend the Board's insertion of religion in science.

I can't imagine watching those three talking about anything -- let alone that early in the morning. Must have been surreal.

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Well, on the left side of the screen you had Jerry spouting off about everythng that he believes to be the literal truth in the Bible. In the middle was Bill Nye Simply incredulous that anybody could believe in anything that Jerry had to say, and on the right side of the screen was Judy Gold making lame George Bush jokes. The best Bill Nye moment was when Harry Smith was going to ask him if ID had any scientific merit and Bill answered with a resounding NO before Harry could finish. I'm not sure why Judy Gold was there, I tuned in right after they introduced everybody.

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so then some guy creates a new religion and demands that they teach it as theory

it has something to do with speghetti people

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I'm of the mindset that you can teach your kids that the evolution your kids learn in science is how God created the world from their Sunday school class.

It's REALLY about fanatics trying to convert the masses.

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This is a significant victory of scientific education! A Dover community has made a clear statement by electing a new school board that opposes the teaching of intelligent design in science classes. This change emphasizes the importance of separating religious beliefs from scientific education. 

Updated On: 7/11/24 at 12:03 PM