Log In · Register

 
Judge rules against intelligent design
*mipadi*
post Dec 20 2005, 02:11 PM
Post #1





Guest






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
 
 
Start new topic
Replies
Retrogressive
post Dec 21 2005, 05:27 AM
Post #2


Don't wake ghostie.
*******

Group: Official Member
Posts: 3,546
Joined: Jan 2004
Member No: 2,405



Shouldn't people be taught all angles and decide for themselves? That's what I was taught in a Christian school.
 

Posts in this topic
mipadi   Judge rules against intelligent design   Dec 20 2005, 02:11 PM
nightmare4taki   I had to do a paper over this some while ago. LOL...   Dec 20 2005, 07:15 PM
Stately Lover   QUOTE(nightmare4taki @ Dec 20 2005, 4:15 PM)I...   Dec 20 2005, 07:27 PM
Spirited Away   QUOTE(Stately Lover @ Dec 20 2005, 7:27 PM)Do...   Dec 21 2005, 02:22 AM
mipadi   QUOTE(nightmare4taki @ Dec 20 2005, 7:15 PM)L...   Dec 21 2005, 12:01 AM
Frankie   QUOTE(nightmare4taki @ Dec 20 2005, 6:15 PM)L...   Dec 21 2005, 02:23 AM
yo pusha   good job judges   Dec 20 2005, 07:29 PM
Stephire   I don't really understand. =X Did the school b...   Dec 20 2005, 07:31 PM
digital.fragrance   QUOTEDo all the other religions believe in a creat...   Dec 20 2005, 07:31 PM
Stately Lover   QUOTE(digital.fragrance @ Dec 20 2005, 4:31 P...   Dec 20 2005, 08:25 PM
yo pusha   maybe introducing the idea of intelligent design t...   Dec 21 2005, 02:25 AM
yanners   YAY good for him :D   Dec 21 2005, 05:26 AM
Retrogressive   Shouldn't people be taught all angles and deci...   Dec 21 2005, 05:27 AM
mipadi   QUOTE(Retrogressive @ Dec 21 2005, 5:27 AM)Sh...   Dec 21 2005, 10:31 AM
krnxswat   what the hell's up with everyone posting artic...   Dec 21 2005, 10:55 AM
vash1530   wtf is intelligent design?(retorical) It's not...   Dec 21 2005, 11:10 AM
Kristinaa   I'm assuming that Intelligent Design = God and...   Dec 21 2005, 12:25 PM
not_your_average   Good for them. Intelligent design is not science, ...   Dec 21 2005, 12:34 PM
disco infiltrator   Yay. *waves flag* Errr yea not science ok that...   Dec 21 2005, 01:39 PM
kryogenix   I don't like intelligent design, because it...   Dec 21 2005, 06:32 PM
yummy_delight   I believe in intelligent design, but I do think th...   Dec 21 2005, 06:47 PM
Smoogrish   Personally, I'm all for Darwin's Theory of...   Dec 21 2005, 08:31 PM
dreamergirl   Someone tell me what viable evidence do evolutioni...   Dec 22 2005, 03:43 PM
mipadi   QUOTE(dreamergirl @ Dec 22 2005, 3:43 PM)Can ...   Dec 22 2005, 06:16 PM
kryogenix   My problem with intelligent design is that it does...   Dec 22 2005, 03:51 PM


Reply to this topicStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members: