Neanderthals Sent Packing

In an entirely sensible and logical ruling, a US district judge has repudiated religio-nuts who were forcing the teaching of so-called “intelligent design” as an alternative to evolution in a Pennsylvania school.

Stating that the local school board violated a constitutional ban on teaching religion in public schools, Judge John Jones also added, “Our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in a public school classroom.... Any asserted secular purposes by the board are a sham and are merely secondary to a religious objective.” Calling the school board policy “breathtaking inanity” Jones also said the students and teachers of Dover High School “deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.”

The religio-nuts just don't get it: Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute spewed “The judge thinks intelligent design is a supernatural explanation, but it clearly is not. So the entire decision is predicated on a false perception of intelligent design....This is by no means the end of this issue, legally speaking.”

The evidence for evolution is just overwhelming and to reject it's clarity is sheer lunacy. The Intelligent Design adherents are the latest "evolutionary stage" of the Creationists. Just wishing something to be true, doesn't make it so. Look, if you want to teach your pseudo-belief – do it in church or at your next meeting of The Flat Earth Society.
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