Pa. School Board to Vote on Evolution [Dover PA..."intelligent design"]

Yahoo ^

[Sub-Driver]

Pa. School Board to Vote on Evolution

21 minutes ago

Dover's foundering school policy of presenting "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution was headed for the history books Tuesday night.

Two weeks after a federal judge ruled the concept was religious and not scientific, the Dover Area School Board's newly elected members planned to formally rescind the policy.

The policy, approved in October 2004, required students be read a statement about "intelligent design" before ninth-grade lessons on evolution. The statement said Darwin's theory is "not a fact" and has inexplicable "gaps," and referred students to an intelligent-design book.

On Dec. 20, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III sided with eight families who argued that "intelligent design," which attributes the existence of complex organisms to an unidentified intelligent cause, is biblical creationism in disguise.

The school board said it was trying to improve science education by exposing students to alternatives.

But the judge said the board's real purpose was "to promote religion in the public school classroom," and said intelligent design could not be taught as an alternative to evolution in biology classes.

Most of the school board incumbents who had defended the policy were ousted in the November election, replaced by candidates who pledged to eliminate it.

[From many - one.]

Check later to see how thread evolves.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Check later to see how thread evolves.

LOL. Good one. IMHO, if the parents/voters in this school district thought it was wrong, they ought to have left it in the district. Bringing a federal judge in to decide curriculum is a dangerous precedent.

[TCats]

Dover, Pa. school board votes to rescind its “intelligent design” policy.

The headline on MSNBC

[Jeff Gordon]

votes to rescind its “intelligent design” policy

Science is not democratic.

[RunningWolf]

Wolf says that there is less and less science in science, certainly based on pseudo science rhetoric like that.

There is not any science in the Constitution nor any other of the Republic's core documents. There is a lot of GOD in those documents.., capiche??

Wolf

[Jeff Gordon]

There is a lot of GOD in those documents.., capiche??

That is where God belongs. He does not belong in Science (except as the Grand Creatorof all things).

[RogueIsland]

There is not any science in the Constitution nor any other of the Republic's core documents. There is a lot of GOD in those documents.., capiche??

ID proponents keep telling us that ID has nothing at all whatsoever to do with religion, so what does this statement mean vis-a-vis ID?

[Ken H]

There is not any science in the Constitution nor any other of the Republic's core documents.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8:

[Congress shall have Power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

[linda_22003]

Good for them. Now this silly thing is OVER.

[Dimensio]

There's something deeply satisfying about seeing a lie exposed so very, very simply.