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To: Dimensio

Yes, but rest assured that if huge public rallies were held affirming the consumate consonance of Darwin with Christianity-- which is intellectually possible-- a reactionary community would immediately embark on a legal mission to remove such study from public schools.

This pattern of reactionary behavior is well established for the past 50 years of church-state jurisprudence. Public education has become a target for the concerted misinterpretation of the establishment clause. The establishment clause has become one of the most important censorship tools at work in America today.

It is quite reasonable for scientists to argue about what science is. It is less reasonable to use the much abused establishment clause problems of current legal practice to take a short cut on the problem. That is what happened here. It may not have been science, but it was not an establishment of religion. More ominously, if it was, the Court may have been obliged to leave it alone.


2,378 posted on 12/22/2005 8:23:07 PM PST by lonestar67
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To: lonestar67
It is quite reasonable for scientists to argue about what science is. It is less reasonable to use the much abused establishment clause problems of current legal practice to take a short cut on the problem. That is what happened here

On another thread I suggested that fraud charges against the school board and its individual members would also be in order.

They are required by state law to prepare a science curriculum.

They willfully included the pseudoscience of ID in the curriculum.

This constitutes fraud against the people of Dover, and, IMO, is also a high crime warranting impeachment and removal from office by the Pa. Legislature.

2,563 posted on 12/23/2005 2:20:49 PM PST by Virginia-American
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