Evolution Triumphs in the Midwest.
Intelligent Design has been muscled out of the Ohio school board. The news came early this afternoon from Help Ohio Public Education (HOPE), an organization devoted to getting pro-evolution candidates onto the board.
Four out of five HOPE-endorsed candidates won their races. Particularly thrashed was Deborah Owens-Fink, the board's strongest intelligent design proponent. Owens-Fink’s opponent, former Akron mayor and Congressman Tom Sawyer, won by a whopping 42-point margin.
Also defeated was Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos, who endorsed intelligent design late in his campaign (see Nature 443, 615; 2006). DeVos lost to Jennifer Granholm, the incumbent Democrat, by a margin of 14 points.
