Posted on 11/02/2005 3:35:41 AM PST by PatrickHenry
A school board member who was questioned by a federal judge about discrepancies in his testimony on the purchase of "intelligent design" textbooks was expected to return to the witness stand Wednesday.
Dover Area School Board member Alan Bonsell was to undergo redirect questioning by an attorney representing the board in a landmark trial over whether intelligent design can be introduced in high school science classes.
Bonsell testified Monday that he had received an $850 check from fellow board member William Buckingham. The check was made out to Bonsell's father, who volunteered to donate copies of "Of Pandas and People" to the district.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III asked Bonsell why he never shared that information in a January deposition when he was repeatedly asked under oath about who was involved in making the donation. Bonsell, who served as the board's president in 2004, said he misspoke. [Note to school board lawyers: When the judge asks your client why he's lying, it's usually not a good sign.]
Buckingham testified Thursday he collected $850 in donations to help purchase the books during a Sunday service at his church.
The board is defending its October 2004 decision to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The statement says Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact," has inexplicable "gaps," and refers students to the textbook for more information.
Eight families are suing to have intelligent design removed from the biology curriculum because they believe the policy essentially promotes the Bible's view of creation, and therefore violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
Intelligent design supporters argue that natural selection, an element of evolutionary theory, cannot fully explain the origin of life or the emergence of highly complex life forms.
The trial began Sept. 26 and is expected to conclude on Friday.
Pond Scum alert.
Err, the fourth one from the left is homo sapiens sapien, is it not? He's mythological?
I posted well-sourced quotations on the meaning of the 1st amendment up until FDR packed the court with socialists and communists. The athiest and communist filth on this board screams liar and half-wit. They don't have even have an argument. All they ever want to argue about is their stupid monkey religion. And....
to support your claims because you don't have a single fact to present against evolution, but your lies are over the top to the point where I can't even accept that you believe them. Nothing you say carries any credibility and nothing you say can be trusted.
This ain't about evolution. It's about local control of the public schools. If the minority athiests and monkey-worshippers don't like what the majority decides to teach then they should remove their children and enter them into private schools. Or move to Communist China.
It takes a fit of religious fervor to claim that science is must be autonomous. But this much will be repeated even after all the courts have decided, there is no such thing as content neutrality when it concerns human nature.
All knowledge can be divided into two categories:
Theology, or what happens when God intervenes, and
Science, or what happens when God does not intervene.
I won't even say semi-inteligent design isn't true, only that it can never be science.
So9
So if the citizens of Dearborn, Michigan elect a schoolboard which decides that all public school students must be taught that there is no god but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet, that would be fine with you?
Are you sure that's an evolution diagram? It looks to me more like 6 scientifically illiterate homosexuals and their pet chimp trying to decide what to write next on an FR crevo thread...
Misnaming something doesn't change its essential nature.
So9
Funny, a post like that would get any non-science-hater banned.
I think what you are trying to say is he's as believeable as a Dover School Board member under oath .....
;-)
Where is it I should send my tithes to the Church of the Grand Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Baghdad Bob found a new job I see.
True.
What I find amazing is that I can make a point that should he get his way and real religious teaching should be returned to public schools, that he might not like the result. He just ignores the point, as if I never made it.
You'd think someone that actually used their brain for something more than to hold their hairpiece up would say "gee, that might be bad", or "no, I don't think it will happen that way". But no, the point just fizzles out right in there between the ear wax receptacles.
Me too. Its half the fun on these crevo threads.
I try to imagine these people functioning in society and keep coming up with the same mental image of a guy wearing a sandwich board, screaming his lungs out at tourists in Times Square.
Dang. I missed it.
Double dang. I had already included it in The List-O-Links.
OK enough internet for you today.
Put on your sandwich board and go outside for a little bit.
Selected Highlights of The Wisdom of Rightwing Conspiratr1
Post #79 ain't too shabby:
Yes, and I see they fixed that very useful 'bug'.
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