'Intelligent Design' Loses

[beam me up scottie]

YAY DARWIN !

TAKE THAT, KANSAS!


Ahem.

'Intelligent Design' Loses

Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design'
By MARTHA RAFFAELE, AP Education Writer

Tuesday, December 20, 2005


"Intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.

The Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include "intelligent design," the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday.

And that's not all, sports fans. The Honorable Judge John E. Jones wasn't done with creationists, oh, no.
This is what he had to say to those who would force science to give it up to religion in the classroom:

"The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy," Jones wrote. "It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy."

And the losers?

Still lying their sorry asses off, I'm afraid:

The board's attorneys said members sought to improve science education by exposing students to alternatives to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection causing gradual changes over time; intelligent-design proponents argue that it cannot fully explain the existence of complex life forms.

Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design'


Those poor folks, you have to feel sorry for them.

After all, no doubt it was an anti-God liberal who appointed that heathen Judge Jones, right?

Guess again, kiddies !



From his biography on Wikipedia : A Republican, Jones was appointed by President George W. Bush as federal judge on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in February 2002 and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 30, 2002.:evilgrin: