[allmendream]

Yes it was. The people of Dover wanted their children to learn science in science class instead of creationism. This was because they wanted their children prepared to discuss science in college rather than being ignorant of science.

The Judge most CERTAINLY delved into the supposed scientific merits of ID - and found it wanting on several criteria.

From the decision.....

“After a searching review of the record and applicable caselaw, we find that while ID arguments may be true, a proposition on which the Court takes no position, ID is not science. We find that ID fails on three different levels, any one of which is sufficient to preclude a determination that ID is science. They are: (1) ID violates the centuries-old ground rules of science by invoking and permitting supernatural causation; (2) the argument of irreducible complexity, central to ID, employs the same flawed and illogical contrived dualism that doomed creation science in the 1980s; and (3) ID’s negative attacks on evolution have been refuted by the scientific community. …It is additionally important to note that ID has failed to gain acceptance in the scientific community, it has not generated peer-reviewed publications, nor has it been the subject of testing and research. Expert testimony reveals that since the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, science has been limited to the search for natural causes to explain natural phenomena. (page 64)”

Just how wrong can you be?

[celmak]

"The people of Dover wanted their children to learn science in science class instead of creationism. This was because they wanted their children prepared to discuss science in college rather than being ignorant of science.

Nope, as I stated, it was out of the embarrassment of two defendants obviously not being forthright.

"From the decision....."

A decision obviously made with the predisposition that what mattered was the false notion that is now law that there is a separation between church and state that goes one way. The judges view on this decision has no merit in fact; (1) - Science up until the 1900's had always recognized God. (2) - The judge ignores the evidence because of his prejudice. (3) - See Expelled: no Intelligence Allowed. The last sentence by the judge is absolutely ludicrous; Newton, Faraday, and even Einstein new that God had a hand in science.

You are the one, like this judge, that is wrong. The only way Evos win is by way of the court and the communist law that deems a separation of church and state on Americans. And like the Communists, progress in science will be slowed because of Evos.