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Intelligent design is a religious idea and a Pennsylvania school board may not introduce it into the classroom, a federal judge ruled today. Judge John E. Jones III ruled that the Dover Area School Board improperly introduced religion into the classroom when it required science teachers to read a brief...
Members of the school board, and defenders of intelligent design generally, contend that their idea is a legitimate scientific rival to evolution. Since the notion of intelligent design does not specify who or what created life as we know it, they say, it is not an inherently religious idea. Critics...
Jones agreed and pointedly rejected intelligent design as a legitimate scientific theory. ?To be sure, Darwin?s theory of evolution is imperfect,? he wrote. ?However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable...
Jones sharply rejected any suggestion that evolution was somehow at odds with religion. ?Both defendants and many of the leading proponents of ID make a bedrock assumption that is utterly false,? he wrote. ?Their presupposition is that evolutionary theory is antithetical to a belief in the existence of a supreme...
The collection, which spans Chandler’s career from 1941 to 2004, features almost all of his lecture notes and professional correspondences. The papers could be significant for researchers tracing the evolution of the many giant corporations whose histories Chandler has chronicled, including chemical company DuPont and automaker General...