Tag: Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
The Year in Review: Intelligent Design in the UK
An often-heard criticism of intelligent design claims that it is exclusively an American phenomenon.
It’s Time for Some Folks to Get Over Dover
The Kitzmiller v. Dover case, venerated each year by the Darwin faithful on the decision’s December 20 anniversary, gave an easy out to critics who were hoping for a convenient way to dismiss intelligent design.
Circumventing the Post-Dover Media Blackout
Just before the 2005 Dover case started, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article suggesting that the pro-ID viewpoint should not be fairly represented in the news media.
Post-Dover Education Victories for Intelligent Design
The post-Dover narrative favored by the Darwin Lobby has it that ID’s education policies were defeated, and it’s been nothing but loss after loss for us ever since.
Five Years Later, Evolutionary Immunology and other Icons of Kitzmiller v. Dover Not Holding Up Well
Judge Jones might not realize it, but in a recent article in the York Dispatch he admitted that his ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case amounted to judicial activism. He stated: “The decision seems to be holding up well … No other school district has engaged in this kind of a battle. I hope that’s a product of the decision and perhaps the way that I wrote the decision.” As Lawrence Baum writes in his book American Courts: Process and Policy, “[w]hen judges choose to increase their impact as policymakers, they can be said to engage in activism; choices to limit that impact can be labeled judicial restraint.” By admitting that he sought to impact the policy decisions of Read More ›