A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the “intelligent design” explanation for the origin of life cannot be taught in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district.
The Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include “intelligent design,” the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled.
I think Judge Jones is pretty brave. Obviously, we needed no refresher on the Establishemnt Clause, but needed to ascertain that ID was an attempt at subverting it.
This, yesterday, was a statement of principle. It looks as if the framers left behind a pretty good roadmap for how to get back from the brink of rapture…