Here's another opinion piece from the recent "Room for Debate" series in U.S. News & World Report, this time from Richard B. Katskee of Kitzmiller fame.
I thought Katskee's conclusion, in particular, was just stellar:
Able to claim no original research, no peer-reviewed scholarship, and no successes (or even efforts) in the laboratory, the intelligent-design movement is not a revolution in science. It is a crusade in the classroom. Our children need sound science education if they are to be successful in the modern world. But more than that, they deserve the same respect for their religious beliefs that Luskin and his fellow creationists enjoy.
By choosing to implement their crusade in the public school science classroom, ID promoters are not only showing an utter disregard for the well-established mechanisms for developing scientific ideas. They are also intruding on the rights of those who do not share their particular religious beliefs.
And they're doing it all in the name of "academic freedom."
Yeah, I know.
posted by Jeremy Mohn
