A Design That's Anti-Faith - Eugene Robinson - Washington Post

[Coastie for Truth]

Can you imagine a more faithless pursuit than trying to prove the existence of God?

Yet that is what the whole "intelligent design" movement is really about, and it seems to me that people of faith should rejoice at the federal court decision Tuesday forbidding the schools of Dover, Pa., to read a statement touting intelligent design in science classes. The eloquent ruling by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III is a Christmastime blessing.

"Our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom," Jones wrote in a painstaking, 139-page opinion that probably will set the parameters for future battles over intelligent design around the country. No appeal is expected, because the pro-ID school board members who tried to inject religion into the classroom have already been ousted by voters.

ID is the belief that life forms are too complex to have evolved on their own through natural selection and therefore must have had an intelligence -- so powerful that you would have to call it divine -- guiding their development.

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[regnaD kciN]

1. Huh? Is this the same Eugene Robinson...

...who used to play in the NFL and was a member of various fundamentalist athlete groups?

[Coastie for Truth]

2. Don't know.

But if it is - a good sign -- ID is losing some of it's fundie backers.

[kenny blankenship]

3. Not really trying to prove the existence of God so much as to impose

a belief in God, or a public deference to the belief in God, on everyone's children. Whether they're imposing belief in God or public deference to belief and believers doesn't matter, it's the same thing: domination of the public space by religious beliefs hostile to scientific method and reason.