Intelligent Design Advocates Ousted in PA

By: Josh
Published On: 11/9/2005 2:00:00 AM

All eight members who were up for re-election to the Dover, PA schoolboard were ousted yesterday in a sweeping rebuke to their reactionary conservative attempt to teach creationism as science under the heading of "Intelligent Design." 

The eight Democrats elected to replace them "have either argued against the intelligent design policy or for a new focus of the education agenda in the district, which has been dominated by the row for the past year."  The organization, Dover CARES believes the following:

The proper forum for intelligent design is any classroom where its legality is not questionable and where students can freely discuss, question, evaluate, and critically analyze key ideas. Such courses are limitless but include comparative religions, world theology, creation mythology, philosophy, world cultures, world literature, and humanities. With intelligent design in one of these forums, real learning and critical thinking can take place and there would be no lawsuit, because the concept is perfectly valid in one of those courses.

We here at RK Fighting Dems couldn't agree more with Dover CARES.  "Intelligent design" and "creationism" have no place in our public school science classes.  That's because science is the tool whereby we seek natural explainations for natural phenomena.  Let science remain the domain of the objective.  There are other ways to pursue subjectivity and the supernatural, like "intelligent design."


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