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Tuesday, September 27. 2005

Scopes II

The so-called Scopes II trial begins this week in Harrisburg, PA., which concerns a Dover, PA school board's decision for teaching Intelligent Design along with evolutionary theory in biology classes.

Frm the NYT piece:

On the evolutionists' side is a legal team put together by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. These groups want to put intelligent design itself on trial and discredit it so thoroughly that no other school board would dare authorize teaching it.

So here come the religion-haters and the Bible-phobics. Isn't the real issue, though, as it was in Scopes I, whether a local school board can make its own decisions?

Posted by Opie in Religion at 05:47 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Dear Sirs,

The strident assault on "Intelligent Design" is not about religion or scientific method or any of the other red herrings bandied about. It is about anointing the current academic establishment as the arbiter of public debate. This trial is not Scopes II, it is Galileo Galilei II. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0858327.html Galileo and the Church.

For a FAQ on ID please see http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2348

Regards,
Roy
#1 Roy Lofquist on 2005-09-27 09:51 (Reply)

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