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[Dover, PA] Board Rescinds 'Intelligent Design' Policy
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 03, 2006 09:12pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 4, 2006 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By MARTHA RAFFAELE
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 3, 2006; 10:03 PM
DOVER, Pa. -- Dover's much-maligned school policy of presenting "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution was officially relegated to the history books Tuesday night.
On a voice vote, and with no discussion beforehand, the newly elected Dover Area School Board unanimously rescinded the policy. Two weeks earlier, a judge ruled the policy unconstitutional.
"This is it," new school board president Bernadette Reinking said Tuesday, indicating the vote was final and the case was closed.
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 to Dover public school students about "intelligent design" before ninth-grade biology class lessons on evolution.
The statement 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 Dec. 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. |
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