Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial 3of12

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

[mikesinner69]

Christians are good at burning things.

[CanadiaNecro1]

Anyone who could burn a kid's artwork is one sick sack of crap.

[jorgecalivalle]

AT LEAST THIS TIME THEY WERE JUST BURNING IMAGES SINCE IN MEDIEVAL TIMES THEY USED TO BURN PEOPLE AND GALILEO WAS ABOUT TO BECOME ONE OF THEIR VICTIMS...thanks God it didn't happened ! ...hahaha (it's a joke!).

[Darkstar1484]

@RekindledRebelfire I'd call burning it a sign of vandalism.

[jeremythehuman]

John loves Mary written in sand on the beach is evidence for design because it is something we can recognize as a product of human design. Life forms, stars, and planets though are not.

[RekindledRebelfire]

The painting of the ape-to man was voted to be taken down, not "vandalised"

[maskofsan1ty]

If 'John Loves Mary' was written by a creationists then there's proof intelligence wasn't required!!

[vk45de]

@HiryuGouki Doesn't require a genius to tell - abeit with all the information available nowadays - that intelligent design is rubbish.

[BigFatHeretic]

Yeah! Right-wing Christard Funny-mentalist just love to burn stuff. If I had been the student who painted the mural depicting the evolution of man, I would have told them to please, do not burn my painting and let me to take it down myself to take it home with me for safe keeping until the local controversy was settled, and hopefully, I may be able to put it back up again on public display. But no! The student wasn't even allowed that chance. They just took it and burned it. Ecclesiass-holes!

[HiryuGouki]

268 people are scientific geniuses.

[HiryuGouki]

139 people are Creationist Twits.

[HiryuGouki]

@mikesinner69 Indeed they are. They're also good at pissing off innocent Muslim communities by burning their holy book, too!