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Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin s theory of evolution called intelligent design the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply, and both parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state. This is the trial where Behe admitted that if the definition of science was broadened to allow ID, it would also sweep in Astrology. This is the trial which saw Kenneth Miller completely dismantle "Irreducible Complexity". This is the trial where Buckingham and Bonsell went from saying "we don't know where the books came from" to the revelation that Buckingham had taken up an offering in his church, banked the money, wrote a cheque to Bonsell, Bonsell gave it to his father and his father bought the ID books. This is the trial where a number of key witnesses from the upper echelon of the Discovery Institute pulled out at the last minute and therefore would not defend the claims of intelligent Design under oath. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/

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Education

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• evolution
• creationism
• intelligent
• design
• dover
• miller
• behe

[djarm67]

@makeme708 I'll test that prophecy!

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DJ

[djarm67]

@makeme708 You still get to live in it until May 22 plus you get $20. You can't lose! You don't need the house after judgment day which is when I take possession of it.

DJ

[ApatheticOmniscience]

Wow, Nova did this? I have so much respect for them now.

[phantomwolf2]

... i dont want to live in america anymore... this is just sick, how can anyone take ID seriously

[leesoarez]

Creationists are right! They did not come from apes. They came from DONKEYS & ASSES ..lol

[Waltham1892]

Every time ID comes out in the open and puts its cards on the table, it gets stomped.

Still, they do keep trying...

[Dubickimus]

religion studies belongs in the social studies classroom

[bobinhk1]

The creepy and unsettling thing about Intelligent Design proponents is that one them has learnt an 11-letter word; maybe that makes them some kind of "scientist".

[Mogley52]

Must read article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! Just google the title.

[pillowbugg]

Those who deny the theory of gravity and those who accept the theory of gravity.