Puzzling Developments In Ohio On Intelligent Design

What is Ohio's State Board of Education doing? After much speculation that it would be adopting a "Controversial Issues Template" that might permit discussion of Intelligent Design in the classroom, on Monday a board subcommittee failed to vote on the proposal. The Akron Beacon Journal says that instead, the subcommittee spent the two hours allocated to the issue rewriting the minutes of its July meeting to remove references in them to Intelligent Design. The original July minutes referred to other controversial issues, such as global warming, cloning and stem-cell research. Apparently, however, these were in fact not discussed, and Monday's revised minutes delete references to them.