Free Republic

December 21, 2005 The Dover Intelligent Design Decision, Part I: Of Motive, Effect, and History Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District forbids a local school board “from requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as ID.” The first amendment makes intelligent design unmentionable in the classroom. While professing to offer no opinion concerning the truth of intelligent design, the court consistently reveals its contempt for this theory. Most of the Dover opinion says in effect to the proponents of intelligent design, “We know who you are. You’re Bible-thumpers.” The opinion begins, “The religious movement known as Fundamentalism...

Todays dummed down, overly sensitive youth, seem to have all of lifes toys. Long before "go carts," or for that matter, long before the Reverend Jessie Jackson came upon the extortion scene, my pride and joy was a 2 H.P. gasoline powered miniature racing car that my father had bought for my brother and I. We had lucked out, because my parents probably wouldn't have bought this toy if it weren't for my father's loyality to his friend Joe, who had to liquidate his franchise of miniature racing cars from a bankrupted amusement park. Following Al Capone's bloody reign in...