Dover: the school in question. Photograph: Bradley C Bower/AP
Not the government's mangled plans to introduce an identity system, but the arguments over "intelligent design" in America. A district judge has ruled that it was unconstitutional to teach intelligent design in school biology classes, as Suzanne Goldenberg writes in today's Guardian:
Yesterday's verdict concludes a trial that was seen as the most important legal review of science and religion since the 1920s. It arrives at a time when the teaching of evolution is under attack in school districts from Georgia to Kansas and when the school district in Dover was seen as the cutting edge of a new effort by the religious right to inject its views into America's state school system.
Judge Jones's verdict was ambitious in scope, dealing not only with the actions of the Dover school district but also with the very notion of "intelligent design", an idea which surfaced 15 years ago following the failure of earlier efforts to introduce traditional biblical creationism in public schools.
