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The ACLU's Challenge to Intelligent Design

NOVA (PBS) to AIR Documentary on Dover Trial: Nov. 13

Tune into your local PBS station on November 13, 2007, from 8:00-10:00 p.m. to see Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial - a new documentary on the Dover trial.* Host a viewing party and invite friends to view it with you. We have all the materials you need to put on a great party and to raise awareness about religious liberty in PA!

View a preview of the show.

*Check with your local PBS station to confirm broadcast time.

Decision comes down: ACLU wins!

December 20, 2005 - This morning Judge Jones issued a blistering 139-page opinion in the Dover intelligent design trial. There will be a press conference with our lawyers and several plaintiffs in Harrisburg this afternoon. We will be providing more news and analysis of the decision as the day progresses. Check out our blog Speaking Freely for the latest.

Biggest trial on evolution in two decades concludes

After six weeks of testimony, the intelligent design trial in Harrisburg came to a close Friday, Nov. 4, 2005, with laughter and applause. For first-hand accounts of the trial, see the ACLU blog Speaking Freely. Complete transcripts of the trial are available here.

The trial of Kitzmiller v. Dover tests whether American public schools can include 'intelligent design' as a part of science education. The school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, voted in 2004 to require that intelligent design be included in the biology curriculum.

“Intelligent design” is a pseudo-science that has been repudiated by every leading scientific organization, including the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Each of these organizations asserts that the ideas promoted by ID advocates lack any scientific merit and that their claims cannot be supported by scientific research.

Kitzmiller v. Dover Resources

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