6.12.2008

The Discovery Institute Agrees With Me

On their blogpost criticizing the Americans United for Separation of Church and State on the Louisiana Science Education Act, the Discovery Institute says:
If any school districts or teachers try to use the bill to promote creationism or other religious views, they will be violating the law itself. Any supplemental textbooks adopted under the law would have to abide by this prohibition in Section 1C.
So there should be no problem...until they try to claim that Intelligent Design is not a religious view. It is. In his conclusion of the Kitzmiller, et al. v Dover School Board trial, Judge Jones wrote
The proper application of both the endorsement and Lemon tests to the facts of this case makes it abundantly clear that the Board’s ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause. In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

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