After the trial, Jones and his family received death threats and were given around-the-clock protection. Of course they were. We have come to expect nothing less of “Christendom.”

Ignoring for a moment the clear un-Christlike behavior of such threat-makers against the judge, and the fact that non-Christians also believe in and defend “intelligent design” and such …

What do you mean by this statement? Are you saying these badly behaving evolution critics — or threat-makers — are false Christians? If so, according to whose definition? In your view, is it Christianity’s critics or its defenders who are “allowed” to define the faith’s ethical principles? Would you similarly “allow” Christians to direct what moral behavior is and is not “allowed” for a “real” Biblical creation critic?

Most interesting of all, on what basis would you make these moral value judgments as to who is and isn’t being a hypocrite, as you’ve clearly implied?

Once again, the creationists and ID side has yet to offer up any evidence as to why their side should be taught. Not to mention the same Christians are not open to EVERY version of creation being taught. Only their own and yet the world has several of those fireside stories. Judge Jones, a conservative judge himself appointed by Bush, even said in the Dover case:

“Saying the school board made a decision of ‘breathtaking inanity,’ Jones found that intelligent design — the notion that life is too complex to have arisen through natural selection and must have been designed by an intelligent agent — was not science and ‘cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.’

Jones’ 139-page ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover (online at http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf) was the first legal test of intelligent design as a scientific theory. Jones agreed with the plaintiffs’ experts that intelligent design was untestable and therefore not a scientific theory.

Repeatedly in this trial, he wrote “plaintiffs’ scientific experts testified that the theory of evolution represents good science, is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community, and that it in no way conflicts with, nor does it deny, the existence of a divine creator.”

After the trial, Jones and his family received death threats and were given around-the-clock protection. Of course they were. We have come to expect nothing less of “Christendom.”

So, if they want to teach something, at least make sure it can actually hold up as true science with validation and testing behind it. Not just loose ideas that are based in some sort of God of the Gaps theory.

The National Academy of Science shows that less than 1% of scientists believe anything other than evolution. Maybe they are just all clouded by the devil or something. An excuse that seems to never get old.

Sorry but a lot of what you are saying are just empty words and whining. Again, if someone approached us and said the world was flat, agnostic/atheist and Christian alike would all have a good laugh. The difference is you stopped laughing at this nonsense and somehow try to defend it.

thank you for your time
Denis W

Ben Stein was presented with the Philip E Crocker Award that night.

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

Cheers!