'Intelligent design' ruling may have ripples - Yahoo! News

'Intelligent design' ruling may have ripples - Yahoo! News: "Backers of 'intelligent design' have been advising school boards to avoid lawsuits by encouraging criticism of evolution rather than mandating that students learn about intelligent design. But a judge's ruling this week has given ammunition to those fighting challenges to evolution in three states."

Evolution named 2005's top scientific breakthrough - Yahoo! News

Evolution named 2005's top scientific breakthrough - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two days after a U.S. judge struck down the teaching of intelligent design theory in a Pennsylvania public school, the journal Science on Thursday proclaimed evolution the breakthrough of 2005.
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Wide-ranging research published this year, including a study that showed a mere 4 percent difference between human and chimpanzee DNA, built on Charles Darwin's landmark 1859 work 'The Origin of Species' and the idea of natural selection, the journal's editors wrote.

'Amid this outpouring of results, 2005 stands out as a banner year for uncovering the intricacies of how evolution actually proceeds,' they wrote. 'Ironically, also this year, some segments of American society fought to dilute the teaching of even the basic facts of evolution.'"

Senator to Cut Ties Over Evolution Lawsuit - New York Times

Senator to Cut Ties Over Evolution Lawsuit - New York Times: "Senator Rick Santorum said Wednesday that he would withdraw his affiliation with the Thomas More Law Center, which had defended the Dover Area School District's policy mandating the teaching of intelligent design in science classes dealing with evolution.

Mr. Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, earlier praised the district for 'attempting to teach the controversy of evolution.'"

Schools Nationwide Study Impact of Evolution Ruling - New York Times

Schools Nationwide Study Impact of Evolution Ruling - New York Times: "When the school board in Muscatine, Iowa, sits down next year for its twice-a-decade evaluation of the district's science curriculum, the matter of whether to teach intelligent design as a challenge to evolution is expected to come up for discussion."

Is Creationism Destructible? - Where to go from Dover. By William Saletan

Is Creationism Destructible? - Where to go from Dover. By William Saletan: "n his 139-page ruling on the Dover, Pa., 'intelligent design' case, federal district Judge John E. Jones sets out to kill ID's scientific pretensions once and for all. 'After a six-week trial that spanned twenty-one days and included countless hours of detailed expert witness presentations, the Court is confident that no other tribunal in the United States is in a better position than are we to traipse into this controversial area,' he writes. Jones proceeds to tear ID limb from limb 'in the hope that it may prevent the obvious waste of judicial and other resources which would be occasioned by a subsequent trial' on the same question."

Judge Bars 'Intelligent Design' From Pa. Classes

Judge Bars 'Intelligent Design' From Pa. Classes - New York Times: "HARRISBURG, PA., Dec. 20 - A federal judge ruled today that a Pennsylvania school board's policy of teaching intelligent design in high school biology class is unconstitutional because intelligent design is clearly a religious idea that advances 'a particular version of Christianity.'"

Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design'

Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design': "'The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy,' Jones wrote. '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: Pa. Intelligent Design Mandate Unconstitutional

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Judge: Pa. Intelligent Design Mandate Unconstitutional: "The Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include 'intelligent design,' the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday.

Intelligent design is the theory that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause. The school board policy was believed to have been the first of its kind in the nation.

Click here to read the judge's ruling."

ID Ruling

Rocky Mountain News: Nation: "HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A federal judge ruled today that 'intelligent design' cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district.

The Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include 'intelligent design,' the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday. "

Evolution Trial in Hands of Willing Judge - New York Times

Evolution Trial in Hands of Willing Judge - New York Times: "Driving home one day last December from the courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., Judge John E. Jones III tuned in to a radio news report about 11 parents in the nearby town of Dover who had filed a lawsuit challenging their school board's decision to include intelligent design in the high school biology curriculum."

'Intelligent Design' Deja Vu

'Intelligent Design' Deja Vu: "School boards across the country are facing pressure to teach 'intelligent design' in science classes, but what would such courses look like? Thankfully, we need not tax our imaginations. All we have to do is look inside some 19th-century textbooks."

CNN.com - Anti-creationism professor: Resignation was forced - Dec 11, 2005

CNN.com - Anti-creationism professor: Resignation was forced - Dec 11, 2005: "LAWRENCE, Kansas (AP) -- A college professor who drew sharp criticism for comments deriding Christian fundamentalists over 'intelligent design' said he was forced out as chairman of the university's religious studies department."

Warning Label on Darwin Sows Division in Suburbia

Warning Label on Darwin Sows Division in Suburbia: "MARIETTA, Ga. -- The evolution controversy in this comfortable Atlanta suburb began with one boy's fascination with dinosaurs."

Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker - New York Times

Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker - New York Times: "TO read the headlines, intelligent design as a challenge to evolution seems to be building momentum.

In Kansas last month, the board of education voted that students should be exposed to critiques of evolution like intelligent design. At a trial of the Dover, Pa., school board that ended last month, two of the movement's leading academics presented their ideas to a courtroom filled with spectators and reporters from around the world. President Bush endorsed teaching 'both sides' of the debate - a position that polls show is popular. And Pope Benedict XVI weighed in recently, declaring the universe an 'intelligent project.'"