PENNSYLVANIA UPDATE
Pennsylvania's legislative session ended last week. I am hoping that farmerman will tell us what happened to the proposed intelligent design bill.
Meanwhile in Dover, the school board member who insisted on promoting intelligent design announced his retirement. Below are excerpts from the July 10, 2005 edition of the York Daily Record:
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The man who championed the fight to bring intelligent design into Dover's biology classroom is leaving town.
But Dover Area School Board member Bill Buckingham said he will still be involved in September's First Amendment trial over the district's science curriculum.
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Buckingham led the battle to make Dover the first public school district in the country to include intelligent design in its science curriculum. Intelligent design is the idea that life is too complex to have evolved solely through natural selection and genetic mutation and therefore must have been designed by an intelligent force.
Eleven parents, arguing intelligent design is religiously based, are suing the district. And some legal experts are predicting Dover could be the first test case of the concept.
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Buckingham said he doesn't know when he will formally step down, other than that it will be sometime "in the next month or so."
He said friends and family understand why he's moving.
"It's something actually necessary for my physical well being," he said.
