Intelligent Design Update
Hot off the presses... Pennsylvania District Courts determine that intelligent design shall not be taught in high school science classes.
Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said.
"We find that the secular purposes claimed by the Board amount to a pretext for the Board's real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom," he wrote in his 139-page opinion. -- Source
There's a lot more information available in the article. If/when I find the full text of the 139-page judge's opinion, I'll post a link.
Updates:
12/24/05: I pulled some strings and did a little digging... here's what I came up with: I printed the summary of the court case and judgement. It's 53 pages with the margins I set; I'm not sure where the CNN reporter got the 139-page figure. There were two other rulings I could have printed, but didn't see the need: 1) Dover's motion for a summary judgement was denied on Sept. 13, and 2) "Foundation for Thought and Ethics" (FTE) is a group with court-listed members in AZ, TX, and Lancaster, PA. FTE's motion to intervene denied on July 27.
12/25/05: NPR has a podcast that is a report on a pro-ID group who states they will not be deterred by the court ruling. WindowsMediaPlayer RealPlayer
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