[jwalsh07]

Or, to re-iterate my example, do you think a child who kills his playmate accidently ought to be punished for the same crime in the same manner as a mob killer?

Of course not but your analogy is hopelessly flawed. First of all I said you seem to think. And second of all I said that motivation absent action is not actionable. In your flawed analogy there was action.

When the Dover school board says that ID is OOL theory and OOL theory is a discussion for the family, it doesn;t matter what the motivation is. The action was to keep ID out of science class and remand it to the home.

Those are facts, not analogies.

[donh]

I said that motivation absent action is not actionable. In your flawed analogy there was action.

Are we or are we not talking about the Dover schoolboard, and did or did not the schoolboard do something (rather than think something) that was the cause of the court battle?

When the Dover school board says that ID is OOL theory and OOL theory is a discussion for the family, it doesn;t matter what the motivation is. The action was to keep ID out of science class and remand it to the home.

Oh, that's cute. The action was to expose children in compulsory attendance at public schools to an argument, under cover of apparent scientific respectability, that a Prime Mover God exists