I've written before about the misguided decision to teach "Intelligent" Design in Dover, Pennsylvania. The ACLU has announced a lawsuit against the school district to challenge their authority to teach that the universe must have been created by some higher power.

According to the Guardian:

School board member William Buckingham spearheaded the change as the leader of the board's curriculum committee. He has said that he proposed the change as a way of balancing evolution with competing theories that raised questions about its scientific validity. ... The ACLU has said intelligent design is a more secular form of creationism, a Biblical-based view that credits the origin of species to God, and may violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

Buckingham should have considered the value of learning about evolution before trying to criticize it — or at least learning about it from scientists rather than from the mountebanks who are behind the "Intelligent" Design movement. Had he done so, he would have discovered that ID isn't really a scientific theory and that there aren't any serious scientific questions about the validity of evolution. Creationists try to tell people otherwise, but they aren't exactly known for their honesty.

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