Board Rescinds 'Intelligent Design' Policy

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"Not even Pseudo-Science" for Creationism go bye-bye.
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OVER, Pa. - The Dover school board on Tuesday rescinded its policy of presenting "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution in high school biology classes, two weeks after a federal judge found the concept was religious and not scientific.

The policy, approved in October 2004, required that a statement be read to students about "intelligent design" before ninth-grade lessons on evolution. The statement said Darwin's theory is "not a fact" and has inexplicable "gaps." It referred students to an "intelligent-design" book.

On Dec. 20, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III sided with eight families who argued that "intelligent design," which attributes the existence of complex organisms to an unidentified intelligent cause, is biblical creationism in disguise.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_re_us/evolution_showdown_3

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1. The judges' ruling had some really funny moments

He really gave "intelligent design" hell.

This is a wonderful ruling, and a great day for science, rationality, and intelligence, and a major victory for our children.

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2. He ground the fundies under his heel

then body-slammed them with logic. What a glorious ruling.

[kath]

3. The judge's ruling was a great thing to read. The full text is available

here:
http://coop.www.uscourts.gov/pamd/kitzmiller_342.pdf

The judge was majorly pissed with the lying fundie assholes, and really gave 'em hell.

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4. Yeah he did!

I couldn't believe it as I was reading it. The newspaper printed a fair amount of text from the ruling, and I was reading it saying to myself, "I can't believe he wrote this - yes, go go go go go! Give 'em hell!"

Of course, he'll be accused of legislating from the bench.