freeinfidel

Atheism, civil liberties, privacy and other freedoms


A war on science

January 02, 2008 By: Steve Category: Science, belief, intelligent design & creationism, religion No Comments →

The ‘intelligent design’ trial in Dover, Pennsylvania was a landmark case. It established that ID is just a dishonest re-badging of creationism and has no place in a science class. It was an important victory for rationalism, commonsense and science.The video above is the 2006 BBC Horizon programme on the case and the underlying issues.I would also strongly recommend ‘40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania’ by Matthew Chapman - a personal, often funny, scrupulously fair and sensitive account of the trial and the people involved.