[Steve_Seattle]

"First, it's not a scientific alternate theory."

That is your OPINION. It appalls me that you are willing to punish minority opinions on this or any other issue with million dollar lawsuits. You would have been right at home during the Inquisition.

[Physicist]

That is your OPINION. It appalls me that you are willing to punish minority opinions on this or any other issue with million dollar lawsuits.

That argument applies to every lawsuit that's ever been filed. It's always somebody's opinion. And in this case there was no "million-dollar lawsuit" or even a million-dollar award, just the loser paying the fees.

Wasn't it conservatives who agitated for "loser pays", as a key part of tort reform?

[antiRepublicrat]

That is your OPINION.

No, that is fact. ID in its current formulation cannot function as a scientific theory according to the standards of science. Individual bits of scientific research being done under its mantle to challenge points of evolution may be valid, and if they stand up to scrutiny should be put into textbooks, but they do not constitute a scientific theory in themselves.

It appalls me that you are willing to punish minority opinions on this or any other issue with million dollar lawsuits.

It appalls me that some people on a school board would risk their district's finances in order to push a personal religious agenda in opposition to the will of those they represent.

[Dimensio]

That is your OPINION.

It would also appear to be the OPINION of one of ID's major proponents and witness for the defense, Michael Behe, who testified under oath during the trial that science would have to be redefined in order to accomidate ID, and that the same redefinition would also allow astrology to be considered science.

If that's an opinion, it seems to be one shared by the folks on the ID side, so I still don't understand your objection.