"Breathtaking Inanity"

[jeriendhal]

"Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court. Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources."

-From the judge's decision in the Dover, PA "Intelligent Design" schoolboard case.

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Go, you, Judge!

[ndrosen.livejournal.com]

And it may be worth noting that Pat Robertson agrees with the judge that ID is religion; he's just on the other side. ID could be true, but it cannot be tested, and offers no useful predictions, so it isn't science.