Declaration of Independence - 1776
Origin of Species - 1858
Intelligent Design - 1987
ID gets its ass kicked - 2005

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Judge John Jones, a federal judge, and a church-going Republican, dealt a major setback to Intelligent Design. He ruled that it is
unconstitutional to teach the concept in public school science classes
because it is “a religious view.”

Jones’ ruling is not binding outside the Middle District of
Pennsylvania, but attorneys and outside experts say it will have broad
impact on judges, lawyers and school boards. This is how the system works, in that judges largely make their decisions on previous rulings from other cases and judges.

Jones cited Supreme Court rulings that
teaching creationism, which holds that God created all life, violates
the First Amendment wall between church and state. He said evidence at
trial established that intelligent design is “a mere re-labeling of
creationism.” Intelligent design theory does not answer the
question of who or what is the designer. Jones said “no serious
alternative to God as the designer” has been proposed by ID proponents.

In his ruling, Jones said intelligent design
“violates the centuries-old ground rules of science by invoking and
permitting supernatural causation”; it relies on “flawed and illogical”
arguments; and its attacks on evolution “have been refuted by the
scientific community.”

The judge also said: “It is ironic that several
of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their
religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover
their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy.”

Judge John Jones is what’s called a “good” Christian, in that he realizes the importance of seperation of Church & State, and keeping his beliefs to himself. And he obviously realizes that ID is another way of saying “Creation”, and if we teach it in school, we might as well declare the U.S. as a Christian Communist nation.

President Bush, definately our most intelligent president to date, and makes me absolutely proud to be an American, also weighed in on the issue of
intelligent design. This man of brilliance
says schools should present the concept
when teaching about the origins of life. That’s great and all, but
there’s a huge problem with this. Intelligent Design is not science, it
is religious belief. Therefore it cannot be presented in a science
class nor in school at all. Why can’t anyone get this?

Source: USAToday, paraphrased and commented by me

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