Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial 2of12

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/

Category:

Education

Tags:

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

[makeme708]

THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS!!!!!!

MAN WAS CREATED BY THE HANDS OF GOD.

How can man think he is smarter than the ETERNAL EVERLIVING, EVERLASTING EVER REIGNING GOD!!!!!???

MAY 21 2011 IS THE DAY OF THE RAPTURE AND THE BEGINNING OF JUDGMENTDAY!!!

[djarm67]

@makeme708 I'll test that prophecy!

Do you own a home? If so, I will buy it off you for $20. The conditions are that I will give you the $20 upon the signing of the deal, however I do not receive the house until May 22. You win! You get the cash now when you can use it plus get to keep your home until the proposed date of the rapture. I only get to take ownership until the date after the proposed rapture when you will no longer need it. This is a test of your faith in this date!

DJ

[gullf1sk]

Its fun to look at you people down there in the states bickering about this.

Glad religion is next to nonexistent in Norway :)

[gus7826]

@bass109 prove it asshole! oh wait! it's religion, all its about faith i'm sorry

[gus7826]

@bass109 prove it asshole! oh wait! it;s religion all its about fath im sorry

[jeremythehuman]

Just saying evolution is incompatible with your faith and rejecting it just because of that and keeping that a personal thing is one thing. Trying to make your religion look scientifically accurate and trying to get creationism taught in schools is another and not acceptable.

[bommobiel]

@makeme708 HAHA you fail. I still live.

[vk45de]

~30% of people in the US can't accept science, it kinda shows on the likes section now doesn't it

[BigLundi]

@gullf1sk You shouldn't laugh. We have too many nukes. If the religious crazies get into power...you're fucked :P.

[guardman12345]

the book their talking about is the same book i used in my 9th grade bio class and i LOVED it!

[Brownkyl]

I'm glad that I was taught Biology using that exact textbook with all that bad "Darwinism".

[Drgamedood]

@gullf1sk And I hear the majority are atheists. I'd love to live there. :)