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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — “Intelligent design� 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.<
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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. Several members repeatedly lied to cover their motives even while professing religious beliefs, he said.<
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The school board policy, adopted in October 2004, was believed to have been the first of its kind in the nation.<
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“The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy,� Jones wrote.<
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The board’s attorneys had said members were seeking to improve science education by exposing students to alternatives to Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Intelligent-design proponents argue that it cannot fully explain the existence of complex life forms.<
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The plaintiffs challenging the policy argued that intelligent design amounts to a secular repackaging of creationism, which the courts have already ruled cannot be taught in public schools.<
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The Dover policy required students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The statement said Charles Darwin’s theory is “not a fact,� has inexplicable “gaps,� and refers students to an intelligent-design textbook, “Of Pandas and People,� for more information.<
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Jones said advocates of intelligent design “have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their scholarly endeavors� and that he didn’t believe the concept shouldn’t be studied and discussed.<
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But, he wrote, “our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.�<
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The controversy also divided the community and galvanized voters to oust eight incumbent school board members who supported the policy in the Nov. 8 school board election.<
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I love the debates on the networks about this. The pro-ID guys spout talking points and talk over the other person. The anchor never interrupts them... acceptance of religion is dangerous. All of a sudden it's ok to spout bullshit without proving it, and your views must be "respected". <i></i>

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Quote:The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won't work," said Dr. John West, Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, the nation's leading think tank researching the scientific theory known as intelligent design.<
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Heck, I could claim that 14 billion years isn't enough time (in my opinion) for complex objects like Quasars to form, and therefore the existance of such objects proves that my cat created the universe (he's one EVIl pussy). Doesn't mean I expect this to be presented as an alternative to the physical laws in next years' Astrophysics classes.<
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I think they should allow the ID argument in schools, but instead of implying that "god" did it, say that it was aliens. Like in Stargate... <
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