It looks like common sense has returned. Looking at the Register today:

The battle for the hearts and minds of American school children took another turn this week. The infamous Kansas school board that voted to banish Darwin from the science curriculum has welcomed him back with open arms, spurning instead the language of intelligent design.

The school board has voted, 6-4, to remove the language of intelligent design from the curriculum: science teachers will no longer have to say that the central ideas of evolution are controversial in scientific circles.

The explanation of the “nature of science” has also been reworded. It is now described as the pursuit of rational explanations for things that happen in the Universe. . . . (read full article)

About time really.

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