The 'intelligent design' decision: America's Newspapers Speak Out: newspapers across America commented on U.S District Court Judge John E. Jones' ruling in the Dover, Pa., 'intelligent design' controversy. Here are excerpts from some of those editorials.(Pennsylvania)(Excerpt)

From: Church & State | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Boston, Rob | Copyright information

ID: Religious At Its Core

Advocates of intelligent design don't talk about God, and they use scientific-sounding language. But Judge Jones's opinion, all 139 pages of it, makes abundantly clear that intelligent design--which posits that the complexity of natural life shows distinctive elements of design--is nonetheless religious at its core. While its partisans do not identify who the designer is, they offer a supernatural explanation for natural phenomena, which is an e...

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