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To: P-Marlowe
Let's assume that it did.

Ok, let's assume that it did, bcause that's what the relevant portions of the court transcript, which have been pasted into this thread several times now, demonstrates.

Now get out your copy of the CONSTITUTION and then explain to me and all the lurkers exactly how simply making a statement that ID as a viable scientific alternative to the TOE is "an establishment of religion" as referenced in the first amendment.

By virtue of the fact that the Dover supporters of ID failed conspicuously, to the point of committing obvious, rather brain-dead perjury, to hide the fact that their motivation, and a fair measure of material support, was overtly religious. I don't see cold fusioners or crystal healers, or UFOlogists displaying the energy to get their mottos posted on science textbooks, over the objections of scientists, by force of law, and any of those have a substantially better claim to being a legit science than ID does.

Also by virtue of the 1st Amendment, and the post-civil war amendments, which pushed constitutional rights and restrictions down upon local governments--which includes schools paid for with taxes, governed by elected schoolboards, and insisting on compulsory attendance. You might not like this, but in itself, that is unsufficient reason to consider the Supreme's current interpretation of these historical events innaccurate.

2,451 posted on 12/23/2005 12:29:15 AM PST by donh
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To: donh
I asked you to pull out your constitution and show me where the statement by the Dover School board is "an establishment of religion" and you pointed not to the constutution itself, but to the motives of the school board (which are irrelevant) and the opinion of the Supreme Court (which is not the constitution).

I didn't think you could do it. I was right.

2,453 posted on 12/23/2005 1:21:52 AM PST by P-Marlowe
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