Judge rules against intelligent design Options

[*mipadi*]

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.

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[dreamergirl]

Someone tell me what viable evidence do evolutionists have that we "evolved from monkeys"?????? NONE!!!!!!! Whats more probable: that we where created from an intelligent Designer, or that we came from apes. Whats easier to believe. For me its the Designer. Everything that man makes has a designer. Clothes, jewelery, computers, games, household stuff, everything was designed and made by someone.
Lets see............. OK say you take all the little pieces it takes to make a watch and put them on the ground. Can someone here honestly believe that those pieces are gonna "evolve" into a watch over a million or even a billion years? I dont, and that whole senario is impossible. So, if watches and everything else cant evolve, how can people believe that human beings can? We are a million times more complex of a structure than any watch. We are special, designed by someone. NOT EVOLVED!!!

[*mipadi*]

Can someone here honestly believe that those pieces are gonna "evolve" into a watch over a million or even a billion years? I dont, and that whole senario is impossible. So, if watches and everything else cant evolve, how can people believe that human beings can?

Um...because it's not alive, and doesn't contain DNA, thus a watch doesn't undergo the genetic mutations necessary for natural selection, and by extension evolution, to occur?

However, it's not as if non-natural objects don't undergo natural selection and evolution. For example, the Nintendo was released in the early 1980s (1984, if memory serves). Since then, videogame consoles have evolved--they've been improved, to the point where we have Xboxes, PlayStations, and GameCubes now (and more on the way). The products have been "selected"--far more GameCubes are sold nowadays than Nintendos--resulting the "evolution" of the product. It's not natural, as is the evolution through natural selection of biological organisms, but it is a similar concept.