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Essentially, these will be the defense arguments:Even though the four-paragraph statement is read to biology students, the district continues to teach evolution according to state education standards
The textbook “Biology,” co-written by Ken Miller, the plaintiffs’ first witness, is the book still used in biology class. The pro-intelligent design book “Of Pandas and People” is in the library, and administrators merely tell students it’s available.
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When the defense gets its turn, Thompson has promised, it will produce witnesses who will argue that intelligent design is science. And even if its proponents are religious, that doesn’t necessarily make intelligent design a religious concept, he points out.
One of the key defense witnesses will be Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe, who espouses the idea of “irreducible complexity” at the molecular level — the idea that if a single working part of an organism were to be removed, the entire system would cease to function. In testimony last week, Brown University biochemistry professor Ken Miller testified that Behe’s arguments for irreducible complexity have been proven incorrect.
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