The Significance of the Dover Decision

As others have pointed out, the parents brought lawsuit, not scientists.But one thing hasn't been pointed out. Of all the advanced scientific countries, there's only one that has huge swathes of
creationists type bible punchers, and it's no coincidence that that is the one which has an evolution/I.D. education related trial.It's all about religion, Randman. Less religiosity in a country will mean less I.D. support, and the most religious country in the west is where the modern movement comes from. The decision at the trial was that I.D. is a religious movement, and you can easily find quotes from its theologians like William Dembski to back that up.Religions characteristically rely on the indoctrination of children to perpetuate themselves, which is why I.D. aims at the classrooms, and claims, like other forms of creationism, that the evidence based science taught at present is indoctrination. But religion, when it takes on real science done with scientific method will always lose in the long run, and always has.

Try searching "natural selection" on Google Scholar, and we'll see you in about ten years when you've finished reading all the peer reviewed papers concerning it.

It's an evidence based comment. It explains why most of the children growing up in India consider themselves Hindus, and most in the U.S. Christians. Different non-evidence based cultural indoctrinations.What extra data does I.D. look at? Invisible supernatural beings who do genetic modification? They must have damned good telescopes and microscopes at the Discovery Institute.I'm aware that this is drifting off topic, and would be happy to discuss indoctrination elsewhere. The point arose because a Christian judge at the Dover trial came to the conclusion that I.D. is a religious movement.No valuable new scientific ideas of the past were taught to children before the experts in the field were convinced, and their advocates never tried to put them in schools, but rather, to convince their fellow scientists with that dirty word for creationists, evidence.Faith isn't evidence.