US parents begin legal action to stop children learning intelligent design in schools

Its critics deride it as creationism in a cheap tuxedo, but the concept of intelligent design is edging its way into American classrooms. This is a theory that living beings are so complex that they didn't simply evolve, and that some form of higher intelligence must have had a crucial role. With an increasing number of school boards now endorsing intelligent design as an alternative to evolution, some parents in Pennsylvania have decided to take a stand. Last week they began legal action in a bid to stop their children being taught intelligent design, citing the constitutional ban on the teaching of religion in government schools.