Judge Rules ID is Not Science (Dover Case)

ID-'Not science': Judge John E. Jones
That would be Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, in which parents in Dover, Pa., took the school board to court over an attempt to make intelligent design part of the science curriculum.

During six weeks in September and October last year, Jones heard wide-ranging testimony featuring legal precedence introduced from dozens of court cases, including from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Then Jones wrote a 139-page decision that made broadcast headlines within 15 minutes of release at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 20. He concluded from the evidence that intelligent design is creationism repackaged—not science. Making it part of a public school science curriculum would be a violation of the U.S. Constitutions establishment clause, which bars an alliance between church and state

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[thelordmemnoch]

@darwinkilledgod This is the internet, I was being facetious.

[darwinkilledgod]

@thelordmemnoch I get the sense you don't actually know any Republicans... 

[darwinkilledgod]

@Grazimoto1 Her child didn't say we "came from" monkeys, she said "created out of" monkeys. So apparently creationism is being taught as evolution there.... or her child is stupid. Or more likely, her child is fine but she is inarticulate.

[thelordmemnoch]

An honest Republican judge?!? What the hell is his problem? What's next, white kids will serve the same time as blacks for the same crime?

[Grazimoto1]

If your child is upset because he thinks evolution argues that we came from monkeys, then your child TRULY needs to learn what evolution really is! Uneducated families is one of the major reasons evolution needs to be taught in schools!

[gunzrkewl]

@O8SERVER It's people like you who are making comments like this one that are making people want to forcefully teach intelligent design just to stick it to people like you. I truly worry that people like you are going to be the reason our nation will turn into theocracy and will force religion down people's throats.

[maikeru01]

Your child is upset that he came from monkeys? Well, your child is a bitch ass. Tell his dumb ass to grow up and evolve into a man with a pair of nuts. I don't like that we're at war or that the economy is bad but you don't here me bitching and wining and covering it up with lies to make myself feel better.

[masticina]

.. it is so nice to hear that you know those ID-ers that though "Hey we can get that judge on our side" to lose that utterly!

[O8SERVER]

Suck on that, IDers!!!!!!

[tbdaemon]

Sadly, not nearly enough sound bites from Judge Jones :(