Judge: Pa. Intelligent Design Mandate Unconstitutional

In my earlier post, I stated:
"I have to wonder if statistics was offered at the universities where the theory of evolution was taught. I ask this because anyone who has studied statistic can apply it to the probability of life being created by an accidental sequence of events. They will find that it is statistically impossible for life to have been created by accident.Don't throw out the intelligent design theory yet."

Now a federal judge in Pennsylvania apparently hasn't studied statistics either and has ruled that intelligent design cannot be taught in public school.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that "intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district.
The Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include "intelligent design," the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday.
Intelligent design is the theory that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause. The school board policy was believed to have been the first of its kind in the nation.
"It seems to me that a number of states and a number of school boards which may be considering something similar will be watching," Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor, said before the ruling.
Lawyers for the school board had hoped Jones would limit the scope of his ruling to the board's motivation for adopting the curriculum change.
But attorneys for eight families suing to have intelligent design removed from the science curriculum wanted Jones to rule more broadly on the scientific validity of intelligent design.
The board's attorneys said members sought to improve science education by exposing students to alternatives to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection causing gradual changes over time; intelligent-design proponents argue that it cannot fully explain the existence of complex life forms.
The plaintiffs argued that intelligent design amounts to a secular repackaging of creationism, which the courts have already ruled cannot be taught in public schools.
The Dover policy, adopted in October 2004, requires students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The statement says 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.

And we would expect something different from a liberal federal judge on the East Coast? It's better to push a flawed theory then open up minds to other equally plausable theories. This nonsense that it's "just religion under a different cover" is crazy.

I wouldn't be so upset about it if they would just teach evolution as a theory and not fact. But it's too much to ask for our liberal, anti-Christain education system to do that.

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