Posted on 10/12/2005 10:50:53 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
When Bertha Spahr opened the box containing Dover Area High School’s donated copies of “Of Pandas and People” last year, she also found inside a catalogue from the publishing company listing the pro-intelligent design textbook under the heading of creation science.
Under cross examination this morning in Harrisburg in the First Amendment trial against Dover Area School District, the head of the district’s science department testified she filed the catalogue away with other similar textbook materials.
Dover’s attorney, Patrick Gillen, objected to the catalogue being admitted into evidence, arguing that Spahr had not turned it over to administrators. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III overruled the objection.
Spahr also testified that after the school board voted to include intelligent design in its biology curriculum in October 2004, some members of the community thought that the teachers supported the board’s decision. But the teachers did not, Spahr said.
Other people thought that if the teachers didn’t support the board’s decision, it was because they were atheists, Spahr said. This was particularly upsetting to the teachers, Spahr said, “because two of the teachers are the son and daughter of ministers.”
The trial continues this afternoon with testimony from science education expert Brian Alters, a professor from McGill University in Montreal.
<< Would you please provide a reference for this? As a microbiologist, I'd be real interested.
If you get a response, please ping me. I'm not a microbiologist, but I'd be interested too. >>
Me, too. But I predict:
<<< crickets chirping >>>
OR
Yet another reference to something totally unrelated.
Evolutionists may try to claim that abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution, but the reality is that they were once joined at the hip.
How do you account for the existence of life? "I don't know" is not an acceptable answer. if you have no explanation, you are really in no position to argue that ID is not a possible explanation; are you?
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