Re: Judge Jones sided with the Discovery Institute and ruled against the Dove...

May in inquire as to why it is dangerous for the courts to try to define
science? What if the issue of whether something is a science were
central to the question of constitutionality?

Bill Hamilton wrote:

>Thanks, Wayne. I agree with your -- and David's -- concerns. It strikes me
>that it's dangerous for the courts to try to define science. I wrote to David
>offline while trying to understand this thread and observed that it seemed to
>me the judge was striving for completeness -- trying to reduce the chances that
>someone else would argue that ID includes an element of science and that
>therefore including it in a science curriculum can be justified. I don't think
>that would fly based on the other tests ID fails, but as David said, the judge
>may have been angry and was trying to fire a shot across the bow of the ID
>community. He certainly was justified in his anger based on the court record,
>but letting anger determine the course of action is dangerous.
>
>--- Dawsonzhu@aol.com wrote:
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Received on Sun Jan 1 19:13:28 2006