A federal judge ruled today that it is unconstitutional for a Pennsylvania school district to present intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in high school biology courses because intelligent design is a religious viewpoint that advances "a particular version of Christianity."
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The judge also excoriated members of the school board in Dover, Pa., who he said lied to cover up their religious motives, made a decision of "breathtaking inanity" and "dragged" their community into "this legal maelstrom with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources."
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In his opinion, the judge traced the history of the intelligent design movement back to what he said were its roots in Christian fundamentalism. He seemed especially persuaded by the testimony of Barbara Forrest, a historian of science, that the authors of the "Pandas" textbook had removed the word "creationism" from an earlier edition and substituted it with "intelligent design" after the Supreme Court's ruling in 1987.
"We conclude that the religious nature of intelligent design would be readily apparent to an objective observer, adult or child," he said. "The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity."
And the response of the vapid imbeciles trying to force their narrow-minded evangelical dreck on us?
"A thousand opinions by a court that a particular scientific theory is invalid will not make that scientific theory invalid," said Mr. Thompson, the president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, a public interest firm in Ann Arbor, Mich., that says it promotes Christian values. "It is going to be up to the scientists who are going to continue to do research in their labs that will ultimately determine that."
It sure would.
If you idiots ever bothered doing lab research instead of going on talk shows and bitching to schools and politicians.
...by the by, it turns out that Judge Jones is a Republican who was appointed by Bush, Jr., and one of whose political sponsors is Rick Santorum. So normally one would refrain from bitching about liberal activist judges.
But the Discovery Institute shan't be swayed from its talking points.
Not only did Judge Jones refer to this specific complaint in his opinion, but I find also this:
[The ruling] has no precedential value at all, and binds nobody who wasn't a party to this case. (Even in the same judicial district, another school board could do the same thing Dover did and a different judge -- or even the same judge -- could rule the opposite way.)
Damn those activist judges!
And Michael Behe, the man who pulled the idea of irreducible complexity out of his ass, was a witness at the trial. He chortled with confidence typical of one who lives in an opiate delusion, foreseeing victory and vindication.
Judge Jones had a somewhat different perspective on his testimony.
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