Gull Lake Rejects Intelligent Design In Science; OKs It For Social Studies

Some time ago, I posted information on the attempts by two 7th-grade teachers in the Gull Lake, Michigan school district to bring intelligent design into the classroom over the objection of school administrators. The Thomas More Law Center took up the teachers’ cause. Now Ed Brayton at his blog, Dispatches From the Culture Wars, reports that earlier this week, the Gull Lake school board refused the teachers’ request that they be allowed to continue teaching intelligent design. In doing so, the board followed the nearly unanimous recommendation of a special committee that studied the issue, of district science teachers and of the District Curriculum Council. The Board, however, accepted the special committee’s recommendation that Intelligent Design could be appropriately taught in a properly-approved high school level elective course in social studies, humanities, political science or philosophy. (Thanks to Logos blog for the lead.)