School Board Drops ‘Intelligent Design’

A school board rescinded its policy of presenting “intelligent design” as an alternative to evolution in high school biology classes, two weeks after a federal judge found the concept was religious and not scientific.

There was no discussion by members of the Dover Area School Board before the voice vote.

The original policy, approved in October 2004, required that a statement be read to students about intelligent design before ninth-grade lessons on evolution. The statement said Darwin’s theory was “not a fact” and had inexplicable “gaps.”