Intelligent Design (ID) is not a new theory. The idea that human complexity is evidence for the existence of a cosmic designer was advanced centuries before Charles Darwin was born. Its best-known exponent was English theologian William Paley, creator of the famous watchmaker analogy. If we find a pocket watch in a field, Paley wrote in 1802, we immediately infer that it was produced not by natural processes acting blindly but by a designing human intellect. Likewise, he reasoned, the natural world contains abundant evidence of a supernatural creator. The argument from design, as it is known, prevailed as an explanation of the natural world until the publication of the “Origin of Species” in 1859.

For 45 years now Darwin’s “Theory of Evolution” has been the basis for teaching our children how man came into being. It is not bad enough that our children are being taught this “theory”, but that it is being taught as undisputed fact… i.e. Truth. It does not seem to matter to it is only a theory and has no proof whatsoever to back it up.  If you ask a Secularist about this they will generally start talking about the fossils found in varying layers of the earth and it is true that some plants and animals can be shown to evolve over time. However, the one thing that the fossils don’t show and can’t show is that a plant never evolved into an animal nor can it show that one animal ever evolved into another animal (that is a dog never became a cat, etc). Moreover, they surly do not show any animal evolving into a human.

Intelligent Design is controversial because of the implications of its evidence, rather than the significant weight of its evidence. ID proponents believe science should be conducted objectively, without regard to the implications of its findings. This is particularly necessary in origins science because of its historical (and thus very subjective) nature, and because it is a science that unavoidably impacts religion.

You may remember the legal case in 2005, Kitzmiller v. Dover .  The main stream media (MSM) was all a-ga-ga over the ruling from a Federal Court that prevented opponents of Creationism from requiring that a statement about Intelligent Design would be included in high school science curriculum to offset Darwin’s “Theory” of Evolution.

The statement was non-religious and did not attempt to introduce religion into the curriculum. On November 19, 2004, the Dover Area School District issued a press release stating that, commencing in January 2005, teachers would be required to read the following statement to students in the ninth-grade biology class at Dover High School:

The Pennsylvania Academic Standards require students to learn about Darwin's theory of evolution and eventually to take a standardized test of which evolution is a part.

Because Darwin's Theory is a theory, it is still being tested as new evidence is discovered. The Theory is not a fact. Gaps in the Theory exist for which there is no evidence. A theory is defined as a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations.

Intelligent design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view. The reference book, Of Pandas and People is available for students to see if they would like to explore this view in an effort to gain an understanding of what intelligent design actually involves.

As is true with any theory, students are encouraged to keep an open mind. The school leaves the discussion of the origins of life to individual students and their families. As a standards-driven district, class instruction focuses upon preparing students to achieve proficiency on standards-based assessments.

Now a year later we find:

A Comparison of Judge Jones’ Opinion in Kitzmiller v. Dover with Plaintiffs’ Proposed “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law”

By: David DeWolf & John West
Discovery Institute
December 12, 2006
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In December of 2005, critics of the theory of intelligent design (ID) hailed federal judge John E. Jones’ ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover, which declared unconstitutional the reading of a statement about intelligent design in public school science classrooms in Dover, Pennsylvania. Since the decision was issued, Jones’ 139-page judicial opinion has been lavished with praise as a “masterful decision” based on careful and independent analysis of the evidence. However, a new analysis of the text of the Kitzmiller decision reveals that nearly all of Judge Jones’ lengthy examination of “whether ID is science” came not from his own efforts or analysis but from wording supplied by ACLU attorneys.

In fact, 90.9% (or 5,458 words) of Judge Jones’ 6,004- word section on intelligent design as science was taken virtually verbatim from the ACLU’s proposed “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” submitted to Judge Jones nearly a month before his ruling. Judge Jones even copied several clearly erroneous factual claims made by the ACLU. The finding that most of Judge Jones’ analysis of intelligent design was apparently not the product of his own original deliberative activity seriously undercuts the credibility of Judge Jones’ examination of the scientific validity of intelligent design.

The summary and the entire analysis can be seen here.

Yes, that is right folks, the Judge in this case, John E. Jones III of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who at the time of the decision Newspapers noted with interest that the judge is "a Republican and a churchgoer”, has now been shown to be a plagiarists. Worse than that, he has been shown to be a lackey for the Leftist secularists by plagiarizing the ACLU lawyers brief, using it as his decision and then ruling in favor of the ACLU.   

I think it is time we as Christians get behind the Intelligent Design movement. As it stands Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is being taught as FACT in every school in the Country. Moreover, it has been the only theory allowed to be mentioned since 1962. It is also an interesting historical note that the ACLU was involve in the so called “Scopes Monkey Trial" (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925),) as Clarence Darrow the lawyer for Scopes was a member of the ACLU. Another interesting fact about that trial is that Scopes (Darrow) lost the case. Darwin’s Theory was not allowed to be taught until the Tennessee Supreme Court having found the statute to be constitutional, the Court set aside the conviction on appeal due to a legal technicality: the jury should have decided the fine, not the judge, as Tennessee judges could not at that time set fines above 50 dollars. The prosecution declined to retry the case. It seems that in the Scopes case the Secularists lost the battle but won the war. In Kitzmiller v. Dover the battle was lost before the fight began and you wonder why the appointing of Federal Judges is so important.