CNN.com - 'Intelligent design' trial goes to judge - Nov 4, 2005
When will people give up attempting to call their beliefs "scientific" and shoving them down the throats of the rest of the world? In a time when even the Vatican is against them, these fundies are using our children as a battleground for their ridiculous, completely non scientific assertions. "A rose by any other name...."
CNN.com - 'Intelligent design' trial goes to judge - Nov 4, 2005:
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A lawyer for eight families urged a federal judge on Friday to overturn a policy that requires the discussion of "intelligent design" in biology classes, saying it improperly promotes religion in schools.
A lawyer for the school board defended the policy, explaining that it was intended to call attention to a new "science movement."
The families' attorney, Eric Rothschild, said the concept promotes the Bible's view of creation with its belief that evolution cannot fully explain the origin of life or the emergence of highly complex life forms.
"Intelligent design became the label for the board's desire to teach creationism," Rothschild said in closing arguments.
Patrick Gillen, a lawyer for the Dover Area School Board, argued that the concept was intended to call attention to "a new, fledgling science movement."
The policy requires students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution.