Creating an Effective Message on Intelligent Design T. Jeremy
Gunn and David G. Cooper Scientists, teachers, and civil
libertarians scored a major victory last December when Federal
District Court Judge John E. Jones III ruled that the school
board of Dover, Pennsylvania, crossed the constitutional line by
promoting “intelligent design” (ID) in public schools.
(http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf) The
American Civil Liberties Union, in close cooperation with
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the
Philadelphia law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP, and the National
Center for Science Education, laid out the facts in such telling
detail that there could be no doubt about either the motivations
or the methods of proponents of ID, an idea that has failed to
gain the support of any legitimate scientific organization in
the United States. ID asserts that some aspects of biological
life are so complex that they could not possibly have arisen
through natural biological mechanism