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Artykuły w "The Philadelphia Inquirer" o rozprawie w Dover (2005)

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Santorum's comments a surprise
> <span class="digest-headline2">A Christian law center's counsel blames politics. The senator's rival calls him a &quot;flip-flopper&quot; on Dover case.<span>
> The lead defense counsel for the Dover Area School District said yesterday that he was surprised at Sen. Rick Santorum's apparent about-face on intelligent design and questioned the timing of his highly critical comments on the federal lawsuit decided this week.<br>

 

Intelligent design is struck down
> <span class="digest-headline2">A judge ruled it a &quot;relabeling of creationism&quot; and said it had no place in a 9th-grade science class.<span>
> Ruling in the first trial on the teaching of intelligent design, a federal judge declared yesterday that the controversial idea cannot be taught in a York County school district as an alternative to the theory of evolution, and dismissed it as a mere &quot;relabeling of creationism.&quot;<br>

 

Testimony finishes in intelligent design case
> <span class="digest-headline2">In the widely watched trial, 11 parents sued, claiming a statement read in class was religion and not science.<span>
> The first trial on the teaching of intelligent design ended in federal court yesterday, wrapping up six weeks of testimony over whether the concept is religiously motivated and therefore unconstitutional.<br>

 

Administrator: Board sets curriculum
> The school board, not teachers, ultimately decides what belongs in the public school curriculum, said the assistant superintendent at a school district being sued over whether intelligent design belongs in science classes.<br>

 

Dover board president testifies
> <span class="digest-headline2">She said she voted to include intelligent design in class even though she was not familiar with it.<span>
> Dover's school board president testified yesterday that she voted to include intelligent design in a high school biology curriculum despite not knowing much about the concept because she thought students should be aware of alternatives to evolutionary theory.<br>

 

Intelligent-design judge lashes out
> <span class="digest-headline2">He was angry about inconsistencies in testimony from the school board president.<span>
> A federal trial that has for six weeks focused largely on a debate between science and religion and the teaching of evolution took a dramatic Law and Order-style turn late yesterday over a money trail.<br>

 

Official's vote wasn't backed by research
> <span class="digest-headline2">A Dover Area school board member said she had been assured intelligent design was &quot;a scientific thing.&quot;<span>
> A school board member who voted to include intelligent design in a high school biology curriculum testified yesterday that she never independently researched the concept and relied on the opinions of two fellow board members to make her decision.<br>

 

Board member denies religious motive on intelligent design
> <span class="digest-headline2">William Buckingham, who pushed intelligent design, disputed reports that he had spoken of creationism.<span>
> Since the landmark trial on the teaching of intelligent design began five weeks ago, a parade of academic experts has appeared in federal court to debate complex scientific theories and make arcane philosophical and religious points about evolution.<br>

 

Naturally, he's a chip off the old DNA
> Charles Darwin might not be in the federal courtroom to hear witnesses challenge his theory of evolution. But his DNA is. As one of Darwin's most vocal modern-day critics testified in a landmark lawsuit last week, the eminent scientist's great-great-grandson sat six feet away in the jury-box-turned-press box.<br>

 

Sociologist urges that theory be aired
> Introducing intelligent design to high school students could help the idea gain wider acceptance among mainstream scientists, a sociology professor testified yesterday in a landmark federal trial over whether the concept can be mentioned in public school biology classes.<br>

 

Dover chief separates concepts
> <span class="digest-headline2">Richard Nilsen testified intelligent design &quot;does not reference a biblical context&quot; as creationism does.<span>
> The superintendent of Dover Area School District testified yesterday that he did not equate the concept of intelligent design with creationism.<br>

 

Dover district leader testifies
> <span class="digest-headline2">He said yesterday that the school board sought legal advice and never discussed creationism.<span>
> The superintendent of a school district that is defending its decision to include &quot;intelligent design&quot; in its biology curriculum testified yesterday that the school board sought legal advice beforehand and never discussed creationism when it adopted the policy.<br>

 

‘Design’ proponents look beyond Dover
> <span class="digest-headline2">Fearing a loss by the school board could hurt their cause, the movement&rsquo;s key backers ask judge for a narrow ruling.<span>
> Can the intelligent-design movement survive if the Dover, Pa., school board loses its court battle to offer the concept as an alternative to evolution?<br>

 

Theory defended as sound science
> <span class="digest-headline2">An intelligent-design advocate testified his studies indicate a &quot;designer&quot; must be behind some systems.<span>
> Taking the witness stand in a federal courtroom for the third day, intelligent-design advocate Michael Behe defended the concept as a &quot;scientific theory,&quot; saying it has a place in high school biology classes.<br>

 

Backer of theory contradicted self, lawyer suggests
> An attorney representing parents suing a Pennsylvania school district over the teaching of intelligent design raised contradictions yesterday in the arguments presented by one of the concept's leading advocates.<br>

 

Author: Intelligent design is science
> <span class="digest-headline2">Michael Behe, a Lehigh biochemistry professor, wrote the best-seller &quot;Darwin's Black Box.&quot; He testified in federal court.<span>
> Intelligent design is a scientific alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution and is not the same as Bible-based creationism, one of intelligent design's leading proponents testified yesterday in federal court.<br>

 

School district defense to open with biochemist
> <span class="digest-headline2">The witness is a well-known backer of intelligent design. District officials also are set to testify in the federal trial.<span>
> For three weeks, witnesses have taken the stand here in federal court to challenge the teaching of intelligent design at Dover Senior High School.<br>

 

Bad Frog Beer to 'intelligent design'
> <span class="digest-headline2">The controversial ex-Pa. liquor board chief is now U.S. judge in the closely watched trial.<span>
> Until he was assigned Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones 3d was probably best known, if at all, for some controversial decisions while presiding over Pennsylvania's state-run liquor system.<br>

 

Expert: Teaching intelligent design impedes learning
> A leading science education expert, testifying in a federal trial over the teaching of evolution in a York County school district, said yesterday that introducing intelligent design into the science classroom is &quot;detrimental&quot; to learning.<br>

 

Few scientists doubt evolution
> <span class="digest-headline2">A handful are &quot;trying to buck kind of an entrenched trend.&quot;<span>
> In a Pennsylvania courtroom, the legal debate grinds on over whether to teach &quot;intelligent design&quot; alongside Darwin's theory of evolution.<br>

 

Intelligent design's big ambitions
> <span class="digest-headline2">Advocates want much more than textbooks.<span>
> The advocates of &quot;intelligent design,&quot; spotlighted in the current courtroom battle over the teaching of evolution in Dover, Pa., have much larger goals than biology textbooks.<br>

 

Teachers testify on refusal to promote intelligent design
> <span class="digest-headline2">Two Dover High School teachers said it would be unethical to present the idea in science classrooms.<span>
> Dover High School science teachers were so outraged by a decision to introduce what they said was Bible-based creationism into biology class that they refused to read a mandatory statement to their students promoting the idea, according to two science faculty members testifying in a federal trial over the teaching of evolution.<br>

 

Professor: Disputed textbook is biblical
> <span class="digest-headline2">She said the book at the crux of the intelligent design trial began as a treatise on Bible-based creationism.<span>
> A textbook advocating the concept of &quot;intelligent design&quot; as an alternative to evolution in high school science classes was written originally as a Biblically based creationist text, a philosophy professor testified yesterday in a federal trial over the teaching of evolution.<br>

 

Intelligent-design trial resumes today
> <span class="digest-headline2">Both sides say the outcome could hinge on whether the Dover school board had a religious agenda in its policy change.<span>
> When former Dover school board member Carol Brown took the stand last week in a federal trial over a change in how evolution is taught, she likened the board's public meetings to &quot;tent revivals,&quot; complete with fire-and-brimstone Scripture-quoting and a chorus of &quot;amens.&quot;<br>

 

The divide over Darwin
> <span class="digest-headline2">Intelligent-design trial becomes a test of values.<span>
> Outside the Dover fire hall last week, taking a break from a video lecture on &quot;Why Evolution Is Stupid,&quot; Judy Grim blamed Darwin's theory for America's moral woes.<br>

 

Intelligent design a religious notion, scientist testifies
> Intelligent design is a &quot;religious proposition&quot; that cannot be tested in a traditional scientific manner, a witness said in a closely watched federal suit over the introduction of intelligent design into a high school science curriculum.<br>

 

Testimony: Creationism was pressed
> A former member of the Dover, Pa., school board testified yesterday in federal court that two fellow board members had pushed for the inclusion of Bible-based creationism in the high school science curriculum since 2003.<br>

 

First day for trial on 'intelligent design'
> <span class="digest-headline2">The case pits the Dover Area School District against eight families who say the teaching violates church and state.<span>
> A Pennsylvania school district sought to add Bible-based creationism to its science curriculum when it imposed a new policy that required the reading of a statement about &quot;intelligent design,&quot; according to lawyers representing the plaintiffs in a landmark case that opened in federal court yesterday.<br>

 

Science vs. religion disquiets small Pa. town
> It started with a textbook. In June 2004, a Dover, Pa., school board member criticized the district's biology text for offering too much &quot;Darwinism&quot; and suggested it adopt a new one that that would teach creationism as well as evolution.<br>

 

Court test is near for 'intelligent design'
> America's culture war moves tomorrow to a federal courtroom in Harrisburg, where religion, science and law will collide in a closely watched trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools.<br>

 

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