Editorial: Intelligent Design Derailed

>>From the article:
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The religious thrust behind Dover's policy was unmistakable. The board
members who pushed the policy through had repeatedly expressed
religious reasons for opposing evolution, though they tried to
dissemble during the trial. Judge Jones charged that the two
ringleaders lied in depositions to hide the fact that they had raised
money at a church to buy copies of an intelligent design textbook for
the school library. He also found that board members were strikingly
ignorant about intelligent design and that several individuals had lied
time and again to hide their religious motivations for backing the
concept. Their contention that they had a secular purpose - to improve
science education and encourage critical thinking - was declared a
sham.

No one believes that this thoroughgoing repudiation of intelligent
design will end the incessant warfare over evolution. But any community
that is worried about the ability of its students to compete in a
global economy would be wise to keep supernatural explanations out of
its science classes.
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Read it at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/opinion/22thur1.html






J. Spaceman

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