Op-Ed: Intelligent Design is not scientific theory

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By Gene Lyons November 29, 2005

To me, the most heartening election result this November took place in
Dover, Pa.

There, citizens in a Republican town in a traditionally Republican
congressional district voted to replace virtually the entire local
school board with moderates running as Democrats. Although the tally
was close, with fewer than two percentage points separating some
contestants, it was also decisive. Every incumbent Republican lost;
every Democratic challenger won.
Partisanship, however, had little to do with it. Essentially, the
election served as a referendum on "Intelligent Design," a religious
idea disguised as a scientific theorem and foisted upon schoolchildren
in biology classes. In October 2004, the old school board voted to
require district science teachers to make their students "aware of
gaps/problems in Darwin's theory and of other theories of (biological)
evolution including, but not limited to, intelligent design."
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