A Pennsylvania public school district will abandon its practice of teaching ``intelligent design'' before lessons on evolution after a federal judge ruled that the concept is ``the progeny of creationism.'' U.S. District Judge John E. Jones denounced the Dover Area School Board in a ruling Tuesday, saying its first-in-the-nation decision to introduce intelligent design into the science curriculum violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The ruling was a major setback to the intelligent design movement, which is also waging battles in Georgia and Kansas. Intelligent design, or ID, holds that living organisms are so complex that a higher force must have created them. (AP)