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'Intelligent Design' Voted Out [4min]

Voters ousted from a Pennsylvania school board eight members who actively promoted teaching the anti-evolution "intelligent design" theory in schools. Madeleine Brand speaks with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's "Talk of the Nation Science Friday," about the battle over what public schools teach about the origin of the universe.
Read entire article at NPR "Day to Day"