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School board that backed intelligent design ousted

Challengers unseated eight out of nine Dover Board of Education members yesterday in a tight race that centered on the issue whether the theory of intelligent design has a place in science classes.

The ninth member of the York County school board was not up for re-election.

The eight board members unseated were all are proponents of a policy -- now the subject of a federal court case -- requiring high school freshmen to hear a statement about intelligent design before biology lessons about evolution.

Let's hope the same happens to these folks: Kansas Education Board First to Back Intelligent Design: Schools to Teach Doubts About Evolutionary Theory

On Thursday, Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture at the Vatican, said that "the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason." Maybe the "born-agains" should take a hint from those who only needed to be born one time and start respecting science. York County residents certainly have done so. Isn't democracy grand?