This is a typical liberal response lacking the essence of the real facts of what happened in my area. It never truly was a scientific debate--because that would not happen in a court--it was a legal case. This case establishes the point I was making that evolution is propped up by the Federal government in various ways.
The federal courts first addressed intelligent design in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District in 2005. A local school board in Dover, Pennsylvania voted to require teachers to read a statement about intelligent design prior to discussions of evolution in high school biology classes. The judge found that the practice violated the Establishment clause, concluding that intelligent design is not a science because it fails to seek a natural cause for observed phenomenon, among other reasons.
And on the same logical grounds we could indite atheistic evolution because it does not seek to identify a theistic cause for observed phenomenon, among other reasons.
There is no doubt that the drive from the federal funding aspect is to keep evolution taught as the main scientific curriculum without acknowledging theistic options as science which is a denial of a founding principle of our country - which is theism.
