Now That Looks Like Some Intelligent Design

I'm a little late to this (WVU playing Wednesday games will do that to me), but one of the most powerful election results from Tuesday came from the Dover, Pennsylvania school board race. That's the town, you'll remember, that is embroiled in a federal legal controversy over "Intelligent Design" and it's place in a public school science curriculum. All eight of the pro-ID folks on the board were defeated in the election. I'm not one to tout election results as evidence of people getting something right, but this does at least indicate that the citizens of York were sufficiently pissed off with these fundie nutjobs to actually vote in a school board election.

Of course, with the good news comes the bad - also on Tuesday, the Kansas State Board of Education voted (6-4, thankfully) to include ID in their high school science curriculum.