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Intelligent Design -- A Stupid Loser

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No, that's not me after a particularly rockin' network party, but it's close, proving conclusively that we did evolve from something slightly less sophisticated than what we are today.

PBS's Nova will be looking into the issue in a two-hour special Nov. 13 as it returns to Dover PA (about 100 miles west of Philadelphia) to re-examine the famous science curriculum trial that took place there in 2004 when a bunch of people sued the school board, which was trying to include the idea that some smart guy (could it be God?) made everything at once, just the way it is today.

They were very excited to find that John E. Jones III, a conservative Bush appointee had been named to try the case. "Be careful what you wish for," said Jones yesterday. He gave the intelligent designers all the rope they needed, and then decided they were trying to inject their religious, not scientific, beliefs into the classroom.

The hero (or villain) of the piece, Bertha Spahr, who had been teaching science for 40 years, evoteachers.jpg
(that's her on the left with Dover bio teacher Robert Eshbach) said she put off retirement to help the other science teachers, "all young enough to be my children, because I could not see them going on alone."

Jones agreed with one TV critic, who characterized the whole situation as "insane."

"It was a surreal experience that got odder," said he.

It has to be tough for the intelligent design crowd, since it's obvious that no intelligent designer would ever create such a bunch of nincompoops.

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