Penn Voters Boot "Intelligent Design" School Board

Dover, Penn voters decided eight of the nine school board officials up for reelection would not serve another term on Tuesday. Democrats fought against the eight because in 2004 these members enacted a policy that required ninth grade biology teachers to read a statement about "Intelligent Design" to students before teaching evolution. Eight families sued the school board on grounds that it was a violation to the Constitution's guarantee of separation of church and state.

Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by some kind of higher force. The statement read to students says Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact" and has inexplicable "gaps."