There won’t be a federal court ruling until January, but the voters know Jesus and they know science and they don’t want God in biology class in Dover, PA., despite the radical, evangelical, fundamentalist right wing protests to the contrary. God Save the Republic!

By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY
The court verdict in a landmark lawsuit on “intelligent design” is weeks away, but voters in Dover, Pa., delivered their judgment this week by sweeping out eight of nine school board members who decided that ninth-grade science students must be told the concept is an alternative to evolution.

The board stirred controversy by requiring a one-minute classroom statement about the idea that parts of life and the universe are so complex that an intelligent designer best explains them. That put Dover at the center of a national argument over whether intelligent design is science or religion. (Related item: Kansas schools can teach ‘intelligent design’)

All nine board members backed the classroom statement, but only eight were up for re-election. They all lost to challengers who argued that the discussion doesn’t belong in science class.