Final Week of Intelligent Design Trial

[brooklynite]

HARRISBURG, PA-October 31, 2005 - A landmark federal trial over whether "intelligent design" can be mentioned in high school biology classes entered its final week Monday with two school board members who supported the concept scheduled to testify for the defense.

The Dover Area School Board is defending its decision in October 2004 to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution.
The board's lawyers planned to call Jane Cleaver, who resigned from the board to move out of state after the vote, and current board member Alan Bonsell to testify about the board's discussions of the teaching of evolution leading up to the biology curriculum change.

Eight families are suing to have intelligent design removed from the biology curriculum. They argue that the school board's policy essentially promotes the Bible's view of creation, and therefore violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

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The plaintiffs are represented by a team put together by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The school district is being represented by the Thomas More Law Center, a public-interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Mich., that says its mission is to defend the religious freedom of Christians.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=3588990

[chelsea0011]

1. You mean, "The Day Science Stood Still" is about to end?

[bobbieinok]

2. is 'intelligent design' to be 'mentioned' or 'taught'????????????