Survival of the fittest

In an encouraging victory for intelligent -- not intelligently designed -- people everywhere, voters in Dover, Penn., swept from office school board members who called for the introduction of "intelligent design" theory into the district's biology curriculum.

Really, it's a refreshing manifestation of natural selection in the democratic process -- normally not known for producing the fittest elected officials (see Congress) -- since the old board clearly was composed of individuals who had no business choosing a science curriculum since they had no ability to do so intelligently.

And to stretch the metaphor still further, had these officials not been voted out of office, the repercussions of passing along bad knowledge of science to future generations of students would have left their students unable to compete and survive in the wider world, which would have caused them to have trouble entering university, obtaining desirable jobs, finding suitable mates, producing offspring, etc. Such is the natural order of things.