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RIO RANCHO — The Rio Rancho school board may rescind a policy allowing alternative theories of evolution to be discussed in science classes.

Three of the five board members - Divyesh Patel, Margaret Terry and Lisa Cour - indicated during a board meeting in October that the policy should be nixed.

The board could take action during a meeting Monday.

In 2005, the board approved the policy in a 3-2 vote. Only two of the three board members who approved the policy are still on the panel.

Opponents have said the policy was a tactic to teach intelligent design - a theory that life on Earth is too complex to have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation.

Nearly all scientists dismiss it as a scientific theory, and critics say it's nothing more than religion masquerading as science.