Word: dover
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...confined to his stall for several months Sources: Corinne Sweeney, DVM, New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals; Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Domestic Animals, Vol. 1 ; Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx Zoo; Animal Painting and Anatomy, by W. Frank Calderon (Dover, 1975) Graphic for TIME by Ed Gabel; reported by Kristina Dell
...concede defeat.The Thomas More Law Center issued a written statement criticizing the Supreme Court itself, saying that the existing case law on which Jones based his decision ?is in hopeless disarray and in need of substantial revision.? The center?s president, Richard Thompson, insisted in the statement that the Dover School Board instituted was not inherently religious. ?The Founders of this country would be astonished at the thought that this simple curriculum change ?established religion? in violation of the Constitution that they drafted,? he wrote...
...Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas criticizing existing Supreme Court precedent on religion as evidence that the court is not unified in its rejection of creationism and other alternatives to evolution. ?Unfortunately, until the Supreme Court adopts a more coherent and historically sound jurisprudence, school districts like Dover will be at risk of costly lawsuits by the ACLU for adopting such modest curriculum changes such as the one at issue,? he wrote...
...Breathtaking inanity" is how U.S. District Judge John Jones characterized the Dover, PA school board's attempt to cast doubt on the theory of evolution-but in fairness, the recently ousted members of that board were relative unsophisticates, snookered by the intellectual scam that calls itself "intelligent design...
...science, and by that measure alone the Dover school board's attempts to make it so were indeed inane. But beyond that the board insisted that by leaving out the G-word you remove the religious connotation from ID, thus evading a 1987 Supreme Court ban on religion in science classrooms. Again, the board bought the story of people like Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe, an ID proponent, who says that ID doesn't assume the existence of God (although Behe admitted he thinks the Intelligent Designer is God). Judge Jones didn't buy that loophole (and for that matter...