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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:00:18 -0500
To: improvetheworld &AElig umich.edu
From: Dave Morris <thecat &AElig umich.edu>
Subject: Hooray! We retain some vestige of intelligent education in our schools.
Status: O

(from a friend of mine on LiveJournal)

I wrote a letter to my congressmen, and the next day Judge Jones 
slapped down Intelligent Design in the public schools, in a remarkably 
brutal decision.. That evening, we toasted long life and good health to 
Judge Jones at my corporate holiday dinner. My company rocks.

Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product 
of an
activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not 
an activist Court.
Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an 
ill-informed faction
on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager 
to find a
constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to 
adopt an

imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking 
inanity of the
Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual 
backdrop which
has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, 
and teachers
of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged 
into this legal
maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal 
resources.

Breathtaking inanity. The decision (according to NPR) is mostly factual 
findings, which are usually not subject to change on appeal. Facts like 
"Is ID a thinly veiled creationism? Yes." "Can we teach religion (as 
doctrine, not history) in the public schools? No."

The very best part of the report was at the very end, the commentator 
asked "and who appointed this judge to the federal bench?" That would 
be our current president, ladies and gentlemen.

Long life and good health to Judge Jones ... and may he have further 
opportunities to rule on matters of "breathtaking inanity."


It's good to know that we're getting some things right. :-)

David P. Morris, PhD
Senior Engineer, ElectroDynamic Applications, Inc.
morris &AElig edapplications.com, (734) 786-1434, fax: (734) 786-3235