Intelligent Design: ; Some Topics Are Best Discussed Outside the Classroom

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THE IDEA of "intelligent design" and the role it might play in the public school classroom is creating quite a storm in American politics. On Nov. 8, voters in Dover, Pa., gave the boot to the entire school board on the basis, apparently, of this controversy. While the eight defeated members supported the plan to include "intelligent design" as part of the curriculum, voters in that district wanted nothing of the kind. That earned the wrath of the loudmouth preacher-politician Pat Robertson, and for that wrath I commend the newly elected members of that board. You can't be all wrong if Robertson is mad at you.

But on that same day, the Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 to mandate some form of anti-evolution instruction in biology classes of the state. This good Republican state is only following the recommendation, made in August, of our anti-intellectual head of state, President George W. Bush.

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Intelligent Design: ; Some Topics Are Best Discussed Outside the Classroom

A delicate issue. I can't give the scientists of this land a very high mark if they have been trying to convince us that there is no God behind the forces of nature. A Gallup poll taken a year ago showed that 87 percent of Ame...

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