Friday, December 23, 2005

International Herald Tribune - 'Intelligent design' derailed

International Herald Tribune - 'Intelligent design' derailed:
"By now, the Christian conservatives who once dominated the school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, ought to rue their recklessness in forcing biology classes to hear about 'intelligent design' as an alternative to the theory of evolution. Not only were they voted off the school board by an exasperated public last November, but this week a federal district judge declared their handiwork unconstitutional and told the school district to abandon a policy of such 'breathtaking inanity.'"