« Darknet excerpts | Main | WFMU's Greed Watch »

Dover evolves

The Dover (Pennsylvania) school board voted to drop a policy requiring a statement on "intelligent design," saying that the theory of evolution is "not a fact" and referring students to a book that promotes intelligent design as an alternative theory. A U.S. District Judge recently ruled that intelligent design is religious, not scientific; teaching it violates the establishment clause in the First Amendment. [Link]

jon posted this at 7:46 AM
Share on Facebook| email to a friend

 Subscribe to RSS feed for Weblogsky