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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 2, “Judge Jones Is a Brilliant, Neutral Legal Scholar”

A full 90.9 percent of a key section was copied, either verbatim or nearly verbatim, from a brief submitted by the plaintiffs’ attorney. Read More ›
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 6, “Judge Jones, No Activist, Stayed Strictly Within Authority”

Federal judges are to decide constitutional questions. Deciding what is and is not science is a matter for philosophers of science. Read More ›
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Read More ›
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“The ‘Teach the Controversy’ Controversy”: David DeWolf Tells the True Story of the Santorum Amendment

Professor DeWolf tells of the adoption of the Santorum Amendment into the Conference Report of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Read More ›
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Legal Experts Analyze the Impact of the Dover Intelligent Design Trial Decision in the New Book, “Traipsing Into Evolution”

Traipsing Into Evolution is the first published critique of federal Judge John E. Jones's decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case, the first trial to squarely address the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design in public schools. In this concise yet comprehensive response, Discovery Institute scholars and attorneys expose how Judge Jones's Kitzmiller decision was based upon faulty reasoning, non-existent evidence, and a serious misrepresentation of the scientific theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Will Robert Pennock Become the Next Michael Ruse?

If you’ll give me the Mic, I won’t Rob much of your time while Penning this short Ruse. In the Dover trial, Robert Pennock is the Plaintiffs’ expert on the philosophy of science, and Pennock pushed hard for a definition of science which is essentially “methodological naturalism.” This is eerily similar to the 1982 case, McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education, 529 F.Supp. 1255 (E.D. Ark) over the teaching of young earth creationism, where Darwinist Philosopher of Science Michael Ruse testified that science was defined as follows: Ruse’s definition incorporates the precise methodological naturalism advocated by Pennock in Ruse’s requirements (1) and (2). Ruse’s definition was also subsequently accepted by Judge Overton and etched into Eastern Arkansas law. But we Read More ›

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