This is a little off-topic for us, but the smackdown of the (former) Dover, PA school board
by a judge on the "intelligent design" issue was a joyous start for the holidays. And made even sweeter by the earlier take-down of the whole inane (judge's word, not mine) school board by the voters. And a slap in the face to those who complain about activist judges -- this guy's an GWB appointee. All in all, it was reassuring to see our system of self-government work so well. Here's how the
Wash Post story started out:
A federal judge barred a Pennsylvania school district yesterday from mentioning "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolutionary theory in a scathing opinion that criticized local school board members for lying under oath and for their "breathtaking inanity" in trying to inject religion into science classes.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III, a Republican appointed by President Bush, did not confine his opinion to the missteps of a local school board. Instead he explicitly sought to vanquish intelligent design, the argument that aspects of life are so complex as to require the hand, subtle or not, of a supernatural creator. This theory, he said, relies on the unprovable existence of a Christian God and therefore is not science.
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