NOT SO FAST….The big intelligent design story in the news today is the Kansas State Board of Education’s decision to approve statewide science standards that cast doubt on evolution. More important, however, was what happened at the polls in Dover, Pennsylvania.
In that small, relatively conservative Pennsylvania town, voters booted all eight Republican pro-intelligent design school board members who were up for re-election and replaced them with Democrats who oppose the curriculum policy. Dover is not some bastion of liberal politics; it’s more like Kansas than parts of Kansas are. If I had to make a prediction, I’d say that’s a better indication of where the intelligent design fight is going than the Kansas decision. It’s not a court striking down intelligent design, but voters taking matters into their own hands and deciding enough is enough.
