PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday barred the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution at a Pennsylvania school, saying in a scathing rebuke to the school board that it violated a constitutional ban on teaching religion in public schools.
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I'm going to comment on this story. It makes me giggle maniacally. I'm sure some of those so-called "conservatives" (who would give Barry Goldwater a stroke, were the man still alive) will spin this as judicial activism, regardless of the fact that the initiative to teach Intelligent Design was a clear violation of the Exclusion Clause of the First Amendment. They will decry the interference of the judciary into the Dover, PA political arena. The problem is, they interferred first. No one is trying to tell anyone that they cannot believe what they wish. This just says that they cannot use our tax dollars to fund a particular brand of religious education. Before we go to much farther, it's important to note that ID is religious education. It is NOT science. No argument will change that, short of re-defining science. And once you do that, its not science anymore, but something else. Feel free to tell your kids that the Flying Spaghetti Monster made the world. Just do not make our tax dollars endorse it. Now if only people in Kansas would follow suit...
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When
1: Evolution is taught in Sunday School
2: ID can make testable predictions
3: The concept of 'conservatives' returns to the Goldwater era
I will accept teaching something along those lines.
Remember, each person's God is only as big as they can conceive it to be.
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