Citizens for Science

Dear fellow CfS,

I recently asked the PA Dept. of Education whether they had a formal position on the teaching of intelligent design in PA public schools. The response was no. In fact, not only is there no formal position, there is in fact not a single mention of intelligent design or creationism on the PDA web site. Have other CfS groups tried to find similar information from their respective Depts. of Ed? I'd be very interested in hearing about it, if you have. Ulitimately, it seems that Depts. of Ed. should at least say, "We are politically unable to weigh in on science versus religion" (or whatever), just so that citizens don't take a lack of position as tacit approval of intelligent design activities in individual school districts.

Thanks for any comments, further information.

Colin Purrington
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/pacfs/pacfs.htm