http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/08/29/palin-creationist/
The legal record suggests that Palin’s approach is not just ignorant
of the facts, but a plain violation of the Constitutional boundary
between church and state.
Recall, for example, the December 2005 United States District Court
for the Middle District of Pennsylvania decision in Kitzmiller vs. the
Dover Area School District. At issue was the legality of a 2004 Dover
Area School District decision to inform all students that they should
“keep an open mind” about evolution and to encourage students to
peruse Of Pandas and People, which the school district gamely referred
to as “a reference book,” to gain an understanding of a competing view
of how life came to be, known as Intelligent Design.
Judge John E. Jones III did not pull his punches. He found that the
testimony of school board members who favored the teaching of
Intelligent Design in the schools “was marked by selective memories
and outright lies under oath.” He labeled intelligent design as “a
religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory.”
Judge Jones also highlighted the discovery of a secret game plan
written by leaders of the Intelligent Design movement that made clear
the real goal of these various academic and legal battles. The “Five
Year Strategic Plan Summary,” known to fundamentalist insiders as the
“Wedge Document,” states that the movement’s goal is to replace
science as currently taught and practiced with “theistic and Christian
science.” The group’s “governing goals,” according to this document,
are to “defeat scientific materialism” and to “replace materialistic
explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human
beings are created by God.”_______________________________________________
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