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S35E05 Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial Summary
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, a federal law suit that successfully challenged the mention of intelligent design in a Dover, Pa., public-school ninth-grade science class as a violation of church-state division, is recalled. Included: trial reenactments; comments from participants, including parents, scientists, teachers and town officials.
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Kitzmiller v. Dover: Intelligent Design on Trial
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In the legal case Kitzmiller v. Dover, tried in in a Harrisburg, PA, Federal District Court, "intelligent design" was found to be a form of creationism, and therefore, unconstitutional to teach in American public schools.
As the first case to test a school district policy requiring the teaching of "intelligent design," the trial attracted national and international attention. Both plaintiffs and defendants in the case presented expert testimony over six weeks from September 26 through November 4, ). On December 20, , Judge John E. Jones issued a sharply-worded ruling in which he held that "intelligent design" was, as the plaintiffs argued, a form of creationism.
NCSE served as a pro bono consultant for the plaintiffs and assisted the legal team in choosing and preparing expert witnesses and in helping the lawyers deal with the scientific and technical material. A special issue of the Reports of the National Center for Science Education, (vol. 26, no. ), covers several aspects of the Kitzmiller case. This article by former NCSE staff member Nicholas J. Matzke describes NCSE's role in the Kitzmiller c
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
PBS Airdate: November 13,
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NARRATOR: Dover, Pennsylvania: like much of the United States, Dover has become a town divided.
ALAN BONSELL (Dover School Board Member): I personally don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution.
ROBERT ESHBACH (Dover Science Teacher): Saying that you don't believe in evolution is almost saying, for us, well, "We don't believe that the Civil War ever took place in the United States."
NARRATOR: Dover is split between those who accept Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and those who reject it. And that rift between science and scripture nearly destroyed the community.
Signs of trouble first appeared after a Dover High School student painted a mural showing the evolution of humans from ape-like ancestors.
BERTHA SPAHR (Dover Science Teacher): It was a lovely piece of artwork, very well done artistically, and it did not offend me in any way.
NARRATOR: But some in Dover were offended by the idea that humans and apes are related, and that mural was removed from the classroom and destroyed.
Flames soon spread to the local school board. Angry that only Darwin
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