US District Judge Decrees that "Intelligent Design" is not science, and violates establishment claus

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4-29-2008 4:21 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e9b24bf9-3b08-4ada-9cb1-79beb1467878/34B06177-D285-425C-8291-210335BAFB72/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/evolution.htm" href="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/evolution.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.law.umkc.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/evolution.htm">Dover, Pennsylvania, where the local school board voted to require
teachers to read a statement about intelligent design prior to
discussions of evolution in high school biology classes. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/evolution.htm">
U. S. District Judge John E. Jones issued a 139-page findings of fact
and decision</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/evolution.htm">He concluded that "ID is not science," but rather is a
religious theory that had no place in the science classroom. 
Jones found three reasons for his conclusion that intelligent design
was a religious, and not a scientific, theory.  First, he found ID
violated  "the self-imposed convention" of the scientific method
by relying upon a supernatural explanation for a natural phenomenon,
rather that the approach favored in science: testability.  Second,
ID is based on the same "contrived dualism" as creation science, namely
its suggestion that every  piece of evidence tending to discredit
evolution confirms intelligent design. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/evolution.htm"><DIV><A href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/kitzmiller_v_dover_decision.html"><B><FONT face="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT size="-1">Kitzmiller v Dover (12/20/2005)</FONT></FONT></B></A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/34B06177-D285-425C-8291-210335BAFB72/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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