Posted on 10/05/2005 3:53:39 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A philosophy professor and two science teachers were expected to testify Wednesday in a landmark trial over a school board's decision to include a reference to "intelligent design" in its biology curriculum.
Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, is being called as an expert witness on behalf of eight families who are trying to have intelligent design removed from the Dover Area School District's biology curriculum. The families contend that it effectively promotes the Bible's view of creation, violating the constitutional separation of church and state.
Forrest's testimony was expected to address what opponents allege is the religious nature of intelligent design, as well as the history and development of the concept, according to court papers filed by the plaintiffs before the trial.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III was also expected to hear testimony from Bertha Spahr, chairman of Dover High School's science department, and biology teacher Jennifer Miller.
Under the policy approved by Dover's school board in October 2004, students must hear a brief statement about intelligent design before classes on evolution. It says Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact," has inexplicable "gaps," and refers students to an intelligent-design textbook for more information.
Intelligent-design supporters argue that life on Earth was the product of an unidentified intelligent force, and that natural selection cannot fully explain the origin of life or the emergence of highly complex life forms.
The plaintiffs are represented by a team put together by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The school district is being defended by the Thomas More Law Center, a public-interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Mich., that says its mission is to defend the religious freedom of Christians.
The trial began Sept. 26 and is expected to last as long as five weeks.
ayyuh, sumtaimes, but hit don't signify nun.
You don't say.
um. wow.
uh... one question: wasn't Osiris the god of the Dead? Wasn't Amun/Ra the Sun God?
is it me, or is it that these anti-Catholic 'tards can't get their Egyptian mythology straight?
oh, okay, okay... that was three questions, and the last one was a compound.
I see you have intimate knowledge. You did forget the 'bootstrap' toggle switches on the front though.
nawp. Ah dun't. Ah did, but thet wuz thin, an' this his naow.
64k. Luxury. I remember paying $200 to update my Trash-80 to 16k. Another $100 for a memory chip to add an 8th bit to video, so I could display lowercase.
you just said "Trash-80"
I will have to send assassins now, you know this.
meanie... coulda hooked us up wit' da URL, yanno
I have two, both working. Can't get Windows to load, though.
Ow! Money was still money a quarter-century ago. (OK, we didn't think so at the time but NOW we do.)
RIP RSX-11M.
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