The Dover board was ousted in the next election, of course, but I was surprised to learn that the new board members are actually Republicans that registered as Democrats to be able to run against the incumbent Republicans.
That was mentioned in one of the earlier threads, but the point got lost in the all the shouting.
"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband -- I know what to do, but I don't know how to make it exciting."
LOL
... discussed Behe's indifference to documentation presented during the trial. Behe was shown 58 papers and 9 books written about the blood clotting sequence, and he just waved them away, saying that wasn't enough.
I'm sure the Judge was impressed.
I went back to the judge's ruling to see what his response was, and I found that the relevant paragraph was about the immune system, not the blood-clotting cascade. I checked my notes, and this reference by Dr. Miller was in the middle of his talk about the blood-clotting details, so either I wrote it down wrong or he misspoke. I'm not willing to watch the webcast again to find out, so here's the correct quote from the ruling:
In fact, on cross-examination, Professor Behe was questioned concerning his 1996 claim that science would never find an evolutionary explanation for the immune system. He was presented with fifty-eight peer-reviewed publications, nine books, and several immunology textbook chapters about the evolution of the immune system; however, he simply insisted that this was still not sufficient evidence of evolution, and that it was not “good enough.” (23:19 (Behe)).
We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution.