"Intelligent Design" Rebuffed in Kitzmiller Decision
We're back in town for a break from our trial, just in time to read today's Kitzmiller ruling, in which U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III enjoins the teaching of "Intelligent Design" as a counterweight to evolution in the public schools of Dover, Pennsylvania.
Although Judge Jones's opinion nowhere mentions Daubert, it does invoke several Daubertian concepts (testability, peer review, general acceptance) in the course of concluding that ID is more a theological position than a legitimately scientific theory.
Judge Jones also uses the phrase "breathtaking inanity" to characterize the Dover school board's vote to include ID in the curriculum.
We're still reading the opinion and we may have more to say later.
Update 12/20/05: By the way, the world has been watching. Here's the lead story from Le Monde.
Although Judge Jones's opinion nowhere mentions Daubert, it does invoke several Daubertian concepts (testability, peer review, general acceptance) in the course of concluding that ID is more a theological position than a legitimately scientific theory.
Judge Jones also uses the phrase "breathtaking inanity" to characterize the Dover school board's vote to include ID in the curriculum.
We're still reading the opinion and we may have more to say later.
Update 12/20/05: By the way, the world has been watching. Here's the lead story from Le Monde.
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