Good News for the Rational

The Dover, PA school district is where the latest battle between Creationism and Evolution is being fought. The school district has been defending in court it's inclusion of Intelligent Design into the curriculum. Today all eight board positions were one by anti-intelligent design Democrats. This would seem to be a pretty clear repudiation of the Creationists. This is very good news, perhaps even better than Kaine and Corzine

ID on trial

The issue of teaching ID in schools is going to court in Dover, PA. The NYT has an article on the issue that is well worth reading.

Intelligent Design is not, in any way, a science and has no business being presented in a science classroom. The hallmark of a science is that it makes definite, testable claims about observations that have not yet been made. For some field to be a science there must be some observations, that have not yet been made, and which have at least two outcomes, one of which is consistent with the theory and one of which is inconsistent. Intelligent Design is generally structured to be so vague that it is not possible to make predictions that can be tested. To the extent that it has made testable predictions they have failed. This is not a science.

Check out the following links to read more about ID and evolution

• Talk Origins


• Talk Design


• Talk Reason