This isn't a matter of free thought. You are certainly free to think whatever you like, as are the deposed Dover school board members.
The issue is whether they could sneak their religious agenda into science classes by promoting a stealth version and calling it "science." They can't.
This is a profoundly conservative decision. Words, after all, mean things.
Thank God for private schools.
Science is not conservative or liberal... The factions on either side of the issue were moral conservative versus moral liberal and the issues go much deeper than the MSM suggest or the moral liberal attest to. This was not about attempting to restrict science it was about taking the muzzle off religion... Objectively this decision goes against the moral conservatives... As far as being profound -this is but another skirmish in a culture war and this battle may have been lost but the war is far from over -we are breeding! LOL