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'''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District''' was a federal court case in which activist judge [[John E. Jones III]] ruled that [[Intelligent design]] was [[creationism]]. Jones wrote that Intelligent Design "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents". The [[Discovery Institute]] found that in his decision Jones has copied verbatim from the [[ACLU]]'s proposed findings of fact. Casey Luskin, a scholar of [[intelligent design]] at the Discovery Institute has shown that the decision amounts to [[judicial activism]], although Judge Jones has denied this.<ref>http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/11/judge_jones_admits_the_activis.html</ref>

'''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District''' was a federal court case in which activist judge [[John E. Jones III]] ruled that [[Intelligent design]] was [[creationism]]. Jones wrote that Intelligent Design "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents". The [[Discovery Institute]] found that in his decision Jones has copied verbatim from the [[ACLU]]'s proposed findings of fact. Casey Luskin, a scholar of [[intelligent design]] at the Discovery Institute has shown that the decision amounts to [[judicial activism]], although Judge Jones has denied this.<ref>http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/11/judge_jones_admits_the_activis.html</ref>

After this case, use of the term "[[cdesign proponentsists]]" came into vogue among evolutionists critical of Intelligent Design and Creationism.

{{quotebox|[[Discovery Institute]]: Judge Jones's Kitzmiller decision was based upon faulty reasoning, non-existent evidence, and a serious misrepresentation of the scientific theory of intelligent design. Despite Judge Jones's protestations to the contrary, his attempt to use the federal bench to declare evolution a sacred cow turns out to be a textbook case of good-old-American judicial activism. [http://www.discovery.org/csc/traipsing/]}}

 

See also: [[Intelligent design and creationism]].

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