Judge Jones handed down the Kitzmiller decision earlier today, chocked full groundbreaking legal reasoning which will doubtlessly enrage the Intelligent Design (read: taxpayer-supported Sunday School) movement:
...we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.
This is the key finding which will be upheld or reversed upon appeal. Assuming the higher courts accept this reasoning (and hold to the traditional establishment clause tests) this case will pave the way for a national legal standard mandating that our schoolchildren will no longer be taught explicitly deist theology in their public school's biology courses. Of course, they may yet study various sorts of religious cosmogeny in social studies or history classes, but this is another matter.
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