Dover officials testified that religious research was involved, court filings show. While members of the Dover Area School Board didn’t speak publicly about creationism until June 2004, private conversations about incorporating it into the biology curriculum started much earlier, according to documents filed in federal court this week. In late 2002 or early 2003, when Bertha Spahr, head of Dover’s high-school science department, requested a new biology textbook, she was told that a board member wanted half the evolution unit devoted to “creationism.” Spahr’s remarks about the creationism requests for biology class were part of her sworn testimony in...