Hallelujah

Science has won a small, but important battle against Intelligent Design advocates in the U.S., ironically the science capital (or Mecca?) of the world. In Pennsylvania, eleven concerned parents sued the school administration for introducing this pseudo-science into their local school. The judge had these words to say about this fiasco:

"...this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial..."

The parents called Dr Kenneth Miller, a biologist from Brown University, as a expert witness. Miller, a Catholic who has written a number of books on how religion and evolution are not mutually exclusive, was a wise choice as he deftly showed that one doesn't need to abandon their faith in order to believe in science.

Nicely played.