{"id":8,"date":"2005-12-20T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-12-10T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T19:15:54","slug":"intelligent-design-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/intelligent-design-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Design Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trial “Kitzmiller et al v. Dover Area School District” in Harrisburg, PA was decided today<\/a>. In this case a school board had required that biology teachers read to the students a statement about gaps and problems in Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory and to make them aware of other theories of evolution including intelligent design.<\/p>\n

The ACLU filed suit on behalf of 11 parents on December 14, 2004, joined by “The National Center for Science Education” and “Americans United for Separation of Church and State”.<\/p>\n

Judge John Jones III, in handing down his decision, made a statement that included the following:<\/p>\n

“In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.<\/p>\n

“Both Defendants and many of the leading proponents of ID make a bedrock assumption which is utterly false. Their presupposition is that evolutionary theory is antithetical to a belief in the existence of a supreme being and to religion in general. Repeatedly in this trial, Plaintiffs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 scientific experts testified that the theory of evolution represents good science, is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community, and that it in no way conflicts with, nor does it deny, the existence of a divine creator.<\/p>\n

“To be sure, Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.”<\/p>\n

Score one for reason and science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trial “Kitzmiller et al v. Dover Area School District” in Harrisburg, PA was decided today. In this case a school board had required that biology teachers read to the students a statement about gaps and problems in Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory and to make them aware of other theories of evolution including intelligent design. The ACLU […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}