Whoo Hoo! Merry Kitzmas!

[elfs]

The judge has ruled in Kitzmiller vs. Dover, the case involving a school board in Pennsylvania trying to teach "intelligent design" to its students, and the ruling is solid!

In summary, the disclaimer singles out the theory of evolution for special treatment, misrepresents its status in the scientific community, cuases students to doubt its validity without any scientific justification, presents students with a religious explanation masquerading as a scientific theory, directs them to consult a creationist text as if it were a scientific resource, and instructs students to forgo scientific inquiry in the public school classroom and instead to seek out religious instruction elsewhere.

Whoo-hoo, indeed!

For more details, read Waterloo in Dover: Kitzmiller vs. DASD. And have a great Christmas.

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Heh. Pandasthumb.org and Pharyngula.org are both a little...hammered right now.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I've noticed. I got no problem with that. It's a big day.

[marketeer]

My husband and I saw a great exhibit on Charles Darwin and his work at the American Museum of Natural History during a recent trip to New York. It included a timeline of objections to the theory of evolution, from the day "On the Origin of Species" was published up to the Dover School Board's original decision. I hope that they update the timeline with this new.

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

I love the snippet at the end about labelling the decision "the product of an activist judge".

The opinion itself is a good read

[norman-hamer.livejournal.com]

http://www.sciohost.org/ncse/kvd/kitzmiller_decision_20051220.pdf