INTELLIGENT DESIGN TAKES IT ON THE CHIN

I was delighted to read the other day that the right wing Intelligent Design[ID] nutbags took one on the chin recently in a Pennsylvania federal court. On Tuesday, December 20, 2005, United States District Judge John E. Jones ruled that the attempt of the Dover School Board to insert ID into the science curriculum violated the constitutional separation of church and state. The ruling was viewed as a major blow to the ID movement, which holds that living organisms are so complex that they must have been created by a higher power. And it was nice to see that Judge Jones didn't pull any punches. He described the proposed Dover policy[where they would be instructed that Darwin's theory of evolution "is not fact" and "has gaps"] as one of "breathtaking inanity". In addition his opinion also noted that the true motive of board members pushing ID wasn't educational, but instead an attempt to promote religion.

Jones[who is a Republican]went on to note that the six week trial yielded "overwhelming evidence" establishing that ID is in fact a "...religious view, a mere relabeling of creationism". The judge wrote that the students, parents and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into a legal battle over ID, which was an utter waste of resources. The School system said it would not appeal because [shockingly] the board members who had been pushing ID had been shown the door in the last election.

I certainly hope that no one in the Judge's family is a CIA operative. If so, they can expect to be outed in the very near future.