[PatrickHenry]

This trial is scheduled to start in three days -- on 26 September. We've had earlier threads about this litigation, but this one ties it all together, with links to essential information.

Please note that at the bottom of the article is a link (copied again here) to the offical website of the court where Kitzmiller, et al v. Dover School District, et al. is being tried. If you click on Docket, you get a list of all significant pleadings filed in the case -- the complaint, the answer, etc. They're PDF files, but almost everyone has the Adobe reader. So you can check that website and be fully up to date on what's going on in that litigation.

[PatrickHenry]

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[longshadow]

pass the popcorn, this is gonna be fun....

[adam_az]

If the schoolboard wins, there should be a lawsuit to introduce teaching about the FSM and His Noodly Appendage.

[curiosity]

Where's the other side? They're taking their time getting on this thread, it appears.

[shuckmaster]

It's a debate ... about religion's place in society and that more than anything I think gets people fired up

I don't believe any one is debating whether religion should have a place in society. It should. The debate is whether religion should be taught in science class. It most definitely should not.

[Vive ut Vivas]

So when do I get to teach my creation story?!

[VadeRetro]

It's a debate ... about religion's place in society and that more than anything I think gets people fired up.

Actually, it's about religion's place in science classes. Ought to be a slam dunk.

Next week should be interesting.

[jennyp]

Resources for those interested in understanding creationism (both old-school and big-tent, a.k.a. intelligent design) as a capitulation to postmodernist subjectivism:

• Discovery Institute (CRSC), circa 1996-1998
• CRSC About page (later lifted whole as the intro to the infamous Wedge Document)
• Origin of the Specious, by Ronald Bailey in Reason and the responses to it.
• Darwinian Conservatism, by Larry Arnhart, followup book to his earlier Darwinian Natural Right

[Gumlegs]

Nice work, PH.

[Chiapet]

Thanks for the links PH. I just spent some time reading through the available pleadings, and IMHO, the Dover Board is screwed.

Although they deny the statements in their Answer, the Board reps have gone on record in public meetings with various statements indicating that the policy they adopted is for a religious purpose. Prior case law pretty much mandates the outcome of this case in that circumstance. That is, the plaintiffs in this case are going to win.

I'm not at all shocked that Dembski and the Discovery Institute have fled the scene. Although some creative wording in the court's written opinion could avoid making a decisive statement, it seems clear that this case will result in a ruling that finds "intelligent design theory" (at least in this case) to be religious in nature.

So much careful work by DI down the drain due to the intemperate remarks of one school board member in Dover, PA!

I also think that it is particularly telling that the Dover Board hired attorneys whose speciality is prosecuting and defending Christian interests. It looks at though the Board shot itself in one foot, then the other, and continued shooting until it cut itself off at the knees.

[Zeroisanumber]

I've been waiting for this. The crevos are finally going to get shut down.