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By John Pieret

div align="justify"br /a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_BQtYCYJpONQ/RYmlNcDBErI/AAAAAAAAAHA/4_wWBYJyMVg/s1600-h/Judge+Jones.JPG"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010717710712115890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_BQtYCYJpONQ/RYmlNcDBErI/AAAAAAAAAHA/4_wWBYJyMVg/s400/Judge+Jones.JPG" border="0" //aThanks to the Discovery Institute for reminding me that today is the third anniversary of Judge Jones' so far ihighly/i influential decision in ema href="http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf"Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board/a/em. Happy Birthday!br /br /I won't bother to link to John West's little blurb, since it is just a series of links to the DI's bogus arguments (a href="http://dododreams.blogspot.com/2007/03/do-they-have-insurance-for-this.html"such as/a that Judge Jones "cut and pasted" from the ACLU's proposed findings of fact), a couple of contrary (if not contrarian) opinions from legal authorities who, for the most part, have little grasp of what ID is (or, more correctly, iisn't/i, namely science) and citing the exchange in the emMontana Law Review/em between West (a non-lawyer), Casey Luskin (barely a lawyer) and David DeWolf for the DI and Professor Peter Irons, which has, to say the least, an a href="http://dododreams.blogspot.com/2006/12/liar-liar.html"interesting/a a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/06/irons_responds_to_west_luskin.php"history/a.br /br /Of course, if the DI really thinks that Judge Jones' decision was so bad, I suppose we can expect them to be out beating the bushes for another test case ... so all those DI "experts" who had to withdraw at the last moment can have another shot at using Billy Dembski's famous vise on the "Darwinists."br /br /Let's all take a deep breath now ... and ihold/i ...br /span style="color:#ffffff;"./span/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThoughtsInAHaystack/~4/491093089" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).