WSJ.com - Trial Opens on Suit Challenging Teaching of 'Intelligent Design'
Lawyers unveiled two contrasting views of “intelligent design” yesterday on the opening day of a federal district court trial here that will decide whether local schools can introduce the controversial doctrine as a legitimate scientific theory.
While advocates for intelligent design hailed it as a new biological concept of the origin of species, an attorney for 11 parents suing the nearby Dover Area School District told the court that, by requiring students to hear that intelligent design is an alternative to Darwin's evolutionary ideas, school officials had thrust religion into the classroom.
“Intelligent design is really a perfect example of creationism,” said Eric Rothschild, of Pepper, Hamilton, a Philadelphia law firm that is helping to represent the plaintiffs. “Intelligent design is not science in its infancy. It's not science at all.” The Dover board, Mr. Rothschild told Judge John Jones III, has “imposed its particular religious viewpoint on Dover students.”
Certainly we will have more to say about this at a later time.
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