Judge rules against intelligent design |
Judge rules against intelligent design |
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QUOTE HARRISBURG, Pa. - "Intelligent design" is "a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory" and 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. Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said. “We find that the secular purposes claimed by the Board amount to a pretext for the Board’s real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom,” he wrote in his 139-page opinion. Source |
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I had to do a paper over this some while ago.
LOL I just think it would be fair to teach both Evolution and Intelligent design. |
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QUOTE(nightmare4taki @ Dec 20 2005, 4:15 PM) I had to do a paper over this some while ago. LOL I just think it would be fair to teach both Evolution and Intelligent design. Do all the other religions believe in a creator and stuff? I'm really not sure >< lol. Otherwise it wouldn't be fair to be teaching just those things, yeah? Hahaha well, regarding the article, I was so happy...and yeah I remember some kid at a speech competition who did a speech about this. xP |
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![]() Quand j'étais jeune... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 ![]() |
QUOTE(Stately Lover @ Dec 20 2005, 7:27 PM) Do all the other religions believe in a creator and stuff? I'm really not sure >< lol. Otherwise it wouldn't be fair to be teaching just those things, yeah? Hahaha well, regarding the article, I was so happy...and yeah I remember some kid at a speech competition who did a speech about this. xP You must also keep in mind that there are atheists and agnostics and atheists especially do not believe in any higher power. Also, just because other religions have gods or goddesses, it doesn't necessarily mean they'd agree with intelligent design. For example, Buddhism teaches a concept almost opposite of ID and it wouldn't be right to force feed ID to anyone. |
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