LuminousVoid

The creationists lost in the Dover, PA trial. Lost big. The opinion is fantastic, the best Christmas present one could hope to get this year! Everyone interested in preserving science against the myths of fundamentalist creationism should read it. It properly concludes that ID is not science; that ID is just rehashed creationism; that the attempt to infuse ID into the curriculum was religiously inspired; and that the school board members were lying about their motivations on the stand.

The citizens of the Dover area are poorly served by the members of the board who voted for the ID policy. It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID policy.
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Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court. Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with it’s resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.