Eric Rothschild
Eric Rothschild
Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al.was the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design. In October 2004, the Dover Area School District of York County, Pennsylvania, changed its biology teaching curriculum to require that intelligent design be presented as an alternative to evolution theory, and that Of Pandas and People, a textbook advocating intelligent design, was to be used...
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We're fighting for the 1st Amendment, the separation of church and state, and the integrity of schools. This trial should decide whether a school board can impose its religious views on other students.
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I think what cross examination revealed is that behind some fancy terms like 'irreducible complexity' and a whole lot of writing, there is really nothing going on scientifically with ID.
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Future school boards or states that are considering it should be aware of how much it costs to bring a case like this to protect individuals' constitutional rights.
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This will not be the last case of this nature. I think that future school boards and school districts aware of this decision have to think very carefully about whether they want to put their communities through this.
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We feel very good about the case we presented.
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Board members in starkly religious terms changed the science curriculum to advance a specific religious viewpoint.
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The conviction and intelligence they brought to this always amazed me.
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Its essential religious nature does not change whether it is called 'creation science' or 'intelligent design' or 'sudden emergence theory. The shell game has to stop.
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Dover is now the thin edge of the wedge. When we talk about an actor outside nature we are talking about God.
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What we have to share about our experience in the Dover case is informative to anyone involved in the debate.
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When you see 'critical analysis of evolution,' you really need to look at what's behind that. Who? Why? Why is there this need for critical analysis of evolution? Why is there no call for critical analysis of plate tectonics?
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The intelligent-design movement is an effort to introduce creationism into the schools under a different name.
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They did everything you would do if you wanted to incorporate a religious point of view in a science class and cared nothing about its scientific validity.
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The case for intelligent design as a religious proposition is overwhelming, Clearly, no valid secular purpose can be derived from those facts.