Its Over in Dover
CNN.com - School board rescinds ‘intelligent design’ policy - Jan 4, 2006
The Dover Area School District’s policy of treating the concept as an alternative to evolution was officially relegated to the history books Tuesday night. Newly elected board members unanimously rescinded the policy on a voice vote and with no discussion beforehand. A judge ruled it unconstitutional two weeks earlier.
“I will feel comfortable again teaching what I’d always felt comfortable teaching,” Miller said.
A different group of school board members had been in control when the policy was approved in October 2004. The policy required that a statement be read that said Darwin’s theory is “not a fact” and has inexplicable “gaps.” It also referred students to an “intelligent-design” book, “Of Pandas and People.”
Eight families sued, and on December 20, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III sided with their argument that the concept of “intelligent design” — which attributes the existence of complex organisms to an unidentified intelligent cause — is religious, not scientific. The judge said that violated the establishment clause in the First Amendment.
“This is it,” new school board president Bernadette Reinking said, indicating the vote was final and the case was closed.
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