{"id":725,"date":"2005-10-31T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/taomph\/?p=725"},"modified":"2007-11-27T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T04:58:41","slug":"test-367","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/31\/test-367\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week for Dover Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the &#8220;last week of the Dover trial&#8221;:http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/newsflash\/pa\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-31\/113074333546830.xml&amp;storylist=penn, brought by parents in the school district against the administrators who forced non-science to be injected into the science classroom. The final witnesses are current and former school board members. The central question &#8211; whether the required language, which makes the misleading statement that evolution is a &#8220;theory, not a fact&#8221;, constitutes establishment of a religion &#8211; will be decided in the coming weeks. I am anxious to see if this case fails the tests set by previous Supreme Court precedents on Biblical creationism and public education.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this is a question of whether reason will triumph. Intelligent design&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=733\">key proponents present a distorted view of science, shaped to fit their faith<\/a>. They mislead the public by putting scientific lipstick on their fundamentalist pig, and they pursue an agenda meant to weaken science standards in our nation&#8217;s education system, a system already weakened by a myriad of other problems. I&#8217;ll be watching this ever closer as it draws to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the &#8220;last week of the Dover trial&#8221;:http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/newsflash\/pa\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-31\/113074333546830.xml&amp;storylist=penn, brought by parents in the school district against the administrators who forced non-science to be injected into the science classroom. The final witnesses are current and former school board members. The central question &#8211; whether the required language, which makes the misleading statement that evolution is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education","7":"category-politics","8":"category-science","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}