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by United States District Judge John E Jones III ruled that mentioning Intelligent Design alongside Darwinian Evolution in Pennsylvania schools is in violation of the Constitution. In October of 2004, the Pennsylvania School Board voted to present Intelligent Design alongside Darwinian Evolution in order to provide alternative theories to the origin of man. Judge Jones maintainted a centralist position by simultaneously stating that ID should be discussed and studied, but cannot be provided as an alternative to Evolution in public schools.
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Maybe instead of 'Pennsylvania Says No to Intelligent Design,' the headline should read thus:
'Judge Says No to Intelligent Design.'
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Hooray! by Rhodizzle :: NR5 :: Show
I'm fairly sure that my stance on such subjects is very well known among the OmniNerd crowd. I actually am glad that this went through, because it stops them from trying to put some watered-down scientific conversion of Creationism into schools. But that is where my praise stops. I think that this decision, and the duality of the Judge's comments illustrate the fact that those that support Evolution are attempting a political solution to a scientific question, which is utterly and completely rediculous. What I see is that Intelligent Design was thrown out merely because it wasn't Evolution.
The problem comes about when you realize that both options, Evolution and Creationism, are completely unprovable without dying, and even then you can't communicate your results back. In essence they both require the same amount of faith, and it boils down to what you believe in. The solution to this scientific question is being abused, in my humble opinion, to be a stonewall against introducing religion to the youth of America instead of having them validly investigate any and all possible solutions to the "Where did we come from?" question and letting them figure it out on their own.
I've so far reduced the entire subject down to objectivity. After looking at the evidence, I can't see how someone could possible make the objective decision that Evolution is a scientific fact, while Creation is nonsensical and has no place in our schools. The question then becomes, is our Judicial System really taking an objective viewpoint to this situation?