The Education of Jennifer Miller: An Update from the Frontline in the Fight against the Anti-Evolution Agenda

Monday, February 28, 2011 - 07:30 in Mathematics & Economics

As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th-grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design. Eleven parents of students in the Dover Area School District sued the local school board in protest. Four months later a Republican judge in a Pennsylvania federal court ruled in favor of the parents, issuing an eloquent defense of evolutionary theory--and a scathing rebuke to those who support intelligent design (ID) as a scientific alternative. [More]

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