The full judgement can be found here:
www.sciohost.org/ncse/kvd...051220.pdf
To sum up, he concludes that the teaching intelligent design policy of the school board is based on false assumptions one cannot believe in both evolution and christiantiy, and therefore finds it unconstitutional to teach intelligent design instead of evolution.
The last few paragraphs of the judgement are particularly interesting.
This wins the "Who DIDN'T see that coming?" Award of the year.
Well, now this makes BOTH major schools of creation theroy illegal in schools. Wonder what's next...
"Stuff happened."
There.
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Well, now this makes BOTH major schools of creation theroy illegal in schools. Wonder what's next...
Science.
WHOA! Science in Science class?
~Rico
I love you.
~Rico
I know ^_~
Good news:
WILLIAMSPORT - A federal prosecutor said testimony in the Dover Area School District's intelligent design case is under review to determine if perjury charges should be pursued.
U.S. Middle District Attorney Thomas A. Marino said yesterday that decision will take time because there is "a lot of reading to do" to determine if the statements rise to the level of a crime.
"I want to question a couple of people who were present," he said. They will not include Judge John E. Jones III, who presided over the case, he said.
Marino's comments came a day after Jones struck down the school district's policy of telling ninth-grade biology students Darwin's theory of evolution is not fact and intelligent design is an alternative explanation of the origin of life.
In his opinion, Jones accused some of those who testified during the six-week trial in Harrisburg of lying, singling out former board members Alan Bonsell and William Buckingham, the leading proponents of the policy.
Both men testified during the trial, which ended last month, and both gave sworn statements in depositions on Jan. 3. During the trial, Jones and lawyers for parents opposed to the policy confronted the men about the discrepancies and evasiveness in their answers to questions about their motivations and efforts to raise money for a pro-intelligent design textbook, "Of Pandas and People."
During the trial, after questioning by Jones and lawyers, Bonsell and Buckingham acknowledged that Buckingham raised money for the books in his church, then wrote a check for $850 to Bonsell's father, who bought the texts and donated them to the school district. Neither man disclosed the transaction in their deposition.
"The inescapable truth is that both Bonsell and Buckingham lied at their Jan. 3, 2005, depositions about their knowledge of the source of the donation for Pandas. ... ," Jones said in his ruling. "This mendacity was a clear and deliberate attempt to hide the source of the donations by [Bonsell and Buckingham] to further ensure that Dover students received a creationist alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution."
"Pandas" is a pro-intelligent design book written by creationists.
Jones also questioned the "credibility" of statements by other school officials and former board members.
In an interview, Buckingham called Jones a liar and denied making false statements. Bonsell has said he "tried to be as truthful" as he could.
Witold Walczak, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented parents opposed to the policy, said any decision to bring perjury charges would be made by the prosecutor's office.
Theory of Intelligent School-Board Design Disproven
DOVER, PAThe controversial "theory of intelligent school-board design," which holds that local school boards are "imbued by their creator with minds of irreducible complexity," was decisively disproven by the actions of the Dover School Board this week. "The ignorant and incompetent decisions of this school board clearly indicate that their opinions are not informed by any sort of higher intelligence," said Dover citizen Hank Jervis, one of thousands of locals currently mobilizing to oust the current school board in the next scheduled elections. "Obviously, there is no all-knowing, all-powerful superintendent guiding their demonstrably incorrect policies." Critics of the theory argue that the new evidence supports the alternate view that school boards, instead of being created perfect and without error, rather evolved over the eons out of a morass of political, social, and religious special-interest groups, some of which are better-suited to adapt to change than others.
Gotta love The Onion.
That was great.
XD
LOL @ Craig Bayfield! That's got to be the funniest thing I've read all day!!!
I totally agree! If you are going to teach a religious aspect on why we're here why not just teach them about all the OTHER religions, too. I see why that didn't work. ^__~