Scopes trials 2005

Another ridiculous court case continues in Pennsylvania. In case you've missed this one, a couple people sued because their school district requires that an idiotic four paragraph statement about intelligent design be read to all students before they learned about evolution. The statement references the creationist intelligent design book Of Pandas and People. Here's a Pennsylvania columnist's take on recent testimony in the case. Of course intelligent design is Christian creationism dressed up as supposed science. Intelligent design advocates deny this claim, but the columnist again points out what I've read a couple other places... popular ID book Of Pandas and People has had a previous version. In that version, the word "creationism" was used instead of the phrase "intelligent design". Yep, they just did a find/replace on the old word processor. Nice.

Good for the parents who brought this suit. What's ridiculous is that they ever needed to.