Defeat for "Intelligent Design"


Judge Jones, who heard the case in Dover County in Pennsylvania, has brought down a devastating decision (139 page PDF ) against the advocates of neo-creationism (or "intelligent design") who wanted it taught alongside evolutionism in high school science classes. Jones heard 21 days of testimony from experts on both sides and concluded that "intelligent design" can no way be considered science as it produced no testable or refutable predictions, that no peer-reviewed science journals published any research papers by its supporters, that advocates of ID misled the court about its close relationship with creationism (already banned from public school science classes), and that as far as he could determine all advocates of ID believed the the "intelligent designer" was in fact the Christian god. To add insult to injury to advocates of ID the journal Science in its end of year edition named evolution as one of 2005's top scientific breakthroughs ( and here ) as the theory continued to provide insights into the development of the human genome and the divergence of animal populations into new species.

Judge Jones, who heard the case in Dover County in Pennsylvania, has brought down a devastating decision (139 page PDF ) against the advocates of neo-creationism (or "intelligent design") who wanted it taught alongside evolutionism in high school science classes. Jones heard 21 days of testimony from experts on both sides and concluded that "intelligent design" can no way be considered science as it produced no testable or refutable predictions, that no peer-reviewed science journals published any research papers by its supporters, that advocates of ID misled the court about its close relationship with creationism (already banned from public school science classes), and that as far as he could determine all advocates of ID believed the the "intelligent designer" was in fact the Christian god. To add insult to injury to advocates of ID the journal Science in its end of year edition named evolution as one of 2005's top scientific breakthroughs ( and here ) as the theory continued to provide insights into the development of the human genome and the divergence of animal populations into new species.

Posted: Tue - December 27, 2005 at 04:15 PM        

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