Darwin Bless Us Everyone!

My favorite story of Election '05 (other'n Dubya being seen as a toxin for the GOP -- Heeyuck!):

Tuesday's school board election in Dover, Pennsylvania, a quiet rural community near the Maryland border where churches seem to outnumber streetlights, was a fitting climax to a year of bitter division there. In a contest with national implications, Dover voters tossed an entire slate of Intelligent Design supporters, replacing them with backers of evolution.

But in the jerkwater world of Kansas, as in "What's the matter with," the Children of the Wheat are proceeding according to plan, involving the youth of middle America and the screwing of minds therewith. As for their brethren in PA, implementation of the plan apparently requires this river in Egypt:

The defeat in Dover doesn’t mean the new board can ignore Intelligent Design but it does get it off the front page for a while. Tom Shaheen of the Pennsylvania Family Institute thinks the rationale behind the vote was simply to make the controversy disappear.

“But I think the board itself is going to have to somehow reconcile the fact that parents and the public did want the freedom for Intelligent Design to be taught.”

Get a clue, yokels! That is those of you who don't really enjoy being seen as yokels -- American schools of higher learning are already casting a jaundiced eye at thee:

A group representing California religious schools has filed a lawsuit accusing the University of California system of discriminating against high schools that teach creationism and other conservative Christian viewpoints . . . The Association of Christian Schools International, which represents more than 800 schools, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming UC admissions officials have refused to certify high school science courses that use textbooks challenging Darwin's theory of evolution.

All I can say is, "Thank God!"