by Jonathan Storm
Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania), page D1, D40
November 13, 2007
The board members who battled to include “intelligent design” alongside evolution in the Dover, Pa., public school curriculum weren’t very intelligent themselves, tonight’s Nova reveals in “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial,” a two hour special beginning at 8 on WHYY TV12.
To make their case, they offered a book that had been altered, overwriting the text to take “creationist” out and drop “design proponents” in. But it didn’t work very well. The words came out “cdesign proponentsists.”
And the judge who adjudicated the lawsuit brought by parents against the school board 100 miles west of Philadelphia in 2005, a judge who was nominated by former Sen. Rick Santorum, a creationist activist, and assumed to be safely in the fundamentalist fold, wasn’t blinded by science.
He ruled that intelligent design “is a religious view … and not a scientific theory,” and barred it from the classroom.
