(2005-12-20) — In the biggest evolution case since the Scopes Monkey trial of 1925, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III today ruled that the so-called Intelligent Design theory of origins is not science, and that a Pennsylvania school district may not offer it to students as an alternative to Darwinian evolution.
The judge ordered the Dover Area School District to alter its current science policy to reflect his ruling (PDF), and he set a limit of 40 million years for implementation of the change.
“My order recognizes that change doesn’t happen overnight, especially when you have to rely on natural, unguided processes, ” Judge Jones wrote. “But some time in the next 40,000 millenia the district policy needs to converge with my view of the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution.”
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1 More Evolution Theories // Dec 21, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Trial of the Century!
Well, the courts have decided that the so-called “Intelligent Design” theory of evolution is not to be an officially sanctioned alternative scientific-like Theory of Evolution. Now if they would only rule on…
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