If there’s anything to be learned from the intelligent design debate, it’s that branding “activist judges” is the hobby of bitter losers. For those who care about the fight over evolution in biology classrooms, Christmas came five days early when the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District ruling was handed down. In his decision, Judge John E. Jones III ruled that not only is the theory of intelligent design religion poorly dressed in science language, teaching it in class is an outright violation of the First Amendment. The ruling was a concise and devastating demonstration of how law, precedent and...
