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Last December, a judge in Pennsylvania made a ruling that changed biology classes in the state.
In 2004, the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, voted to require teachers to read a statement about "intelligent design" (ID) during a unit on evolution. Students traditionally learn that living things evolve, or gradually change their features over time. The required statement offered ID--the notion that certain features of living things are so complex that they must have come about due to an intelligent designer--as an alternative explanation to evolution.
Later that same year, some concerned parents sued the school district over the ...