Dover School Board - This is a major race because of Intelligent Design!!

Ok, yeah it's the school board but this is the school board fighting to put intelligent design on the ballot. So the outcome of this election is a major push for/against the support of ID

http://ydr.com/page/politics/dover/?PHPSESSID=bb6a01b94117aff25334bd18bef07562

Dover
· B Reinking Dem 441
· H Mc Ilvaine, Jr. Dem 426
· B Rehm Dem 421
· T Emig Dem 437
· A Bonsell Rep 380
· J Cashman Rep 415
· S Leber Rep 406
· E Rowand Rep 404
2-Year Term
· L Gurreri Dem 413
· P Dapp Dem 425
· J Mc Ilvaine Dem 426
· E Riddle Rep 397
· R Short Rep 403
· S Harkins Rep 390
2-Year Unexp
· P Herman Dem 397
· D Napierskie Rep 394

2 out of 6 precincts

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/13114094.htm

This is huge - if the democrats can pull out a win - WOW!!

All results are unofficial.

You have to realize that Dover is a pretty conservative area but their website had this to offer on ID:

http://www.dovercares.org/

Critical Thinking and Academic Freedom

We support the teaching of intelligent design and other diverse religious concepts related to the origins of life in order to enhance student understanding and critical thinking. Science class is not the proper curriculum for these concepts. This can only be done in a proper forum, such as an elective comparative religion course, so our students have the freedom to explore these concepts.

I see nothing wrong with an elective offered to students who are interested in this area, but it should not be forced upon them. I'm a Christian and I've always believed that someone had to help form this earth, pretty much what they call ID. But I've never thought of it as something that needed to be taught in the schools. I was a biology student who saw first hand about evolution but I still believed there was a master designer because of the faith I had. I just think it's real dumbass with this 'Intelligent Design' crap because they want to find another way to get religion into schools and this isn't it!