The first duty of any public official in this country is to support the Constitution. That's where the Dover school board failed.
God bless Judge Jones! By driving a stake through the heart of ID, he saved us from having to litigate this mess over and over again, which would only have fueled the MSM in their self-appointed task of declaring that conservatives are idiots.
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Watch that "God" thing, Patrick Henry. The ACLU may be monitoring.
The decision was, of course, one against the real meaning of the First Amendment, freedom of speech and religion. The 1987 Supreme Court precedent was, too.
Personally, what I believe now about God and society has changed over the years, but not my fundamental belief that all sides need to be heard. Dover wanted a disclaimer card read in a ninth grade science class. How evil!
Science is not an exercise in humanism and or "concrete" theory like evolution. The insistence on evolution only is as dogmatic as any fundamentalist preacher saying "don't drink, smoke, chew, or go out with girls who do." You may say its a fact or the truth, but the Fundamentalist has a right to his belief, too, that he thinks to be the truth.
When Darwin first "emerged", both points of view got a hearing. Now the liberal, politically correct media and academia, not to mention the ACLU, are literally cracking down on ideas they find wrong and I guess carrying you along with them.
This may bother you, but I stand for the free discussion of ideas, humanist and "religious" and that religious theories are OK in science classes. These ideas were allowed in the public schools I attended in the 1970's.
"Fundmantalist Scientists" seems to me a good way to describe the advocates of evolution-only science. Dogmatic and intolerant. Hey, look, I've heard a lot of preachers say a lot of crazy things over the years that I wouldn't agree with but we can choose not to believe them and move on.
I would never deny you the right to speak your view, but you must stop trying to censor other people's ideas in science classes. What scientists believe has "evolved" to where it is today and will "evolve" in the future to new beliefs, if you have the ability to allow it.