Dover, Pa., Officially Calls “Intelligent Design” Unintelligent
School board votes to strip much-maligned policy from classes.Two weeks after a federal judge ruled unconstitutional attempts to present intelligent design as a competing theory to evolution, the newly elected school board of Dover, Pa., officially voted to strip that policy from its curriculum.
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