We're fighting for the 1st Amendment, the separation of church and state, and the integrity of schools. This trial should decide whether a school board can impose its religious views on other students.
The intelligent-design movement is an effort to introduce creationism into the schools under a different name.
They did everything you would do if you wanted to incorporate a religious point of view in a science class and cared nothing about its scientific validity.
Board members in starkly religious terms changed the science curriculum to advance a specific religious viewpoint.
Intelligent design does not belong in a high school biology class. ... It is an inherently religious doctrine that is a modern form of creationism, and this shell game has to end. This board wanted to trash evolution, not to teach it. It wanted to impose its religious views on others.
Make no mistake [board members] knew intelligent design was a form of creationism when they added it to the curriculum.
The case for intelligent design as a religious proposition is overwhelming, Clearly, no valid secular purpose can be derived from those facts.
Dover is now the thin edge of the wedge. When we talk about an actor outside nature we are talking about God.
Its essential religious nature does not change whether it is called 'creation science' or 'intelligent design' or 'sudden emergence theory. The shell game has to stop.
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