GOP war on intelligence suffers set back:

Voters take stand against "intelligent design" policy
11/9/2005, 2:58 a.m. ET
By MARTHA RAFFAELE The Associated Press

DOVER, Pa. (AP) — Voters have decided to replace nearly the entire school board with a slate that called for removing "intelligent design" from Dover's high school science curriculum, after the new policy landed the district in federal court.
Eight of nine school board members were up for election on Tuesday, and all eight were voted out in a showdown over how evolution is to be taught and the cost of the district's policy on intelligent design.
The vote came on the same day that intelligent design advocates won a victory in Kansas, where the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools that cast doubt on the theory of evolution...http://tinyurl.com/doy9q
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