killer paragraph from judge's decision in Dover intelligent design case:

[kath]

The judge's opinion in this case was a MAJOR slap-down for the ID movement. My biologist hubby and I read the entire written opinion yesterday. It takes quite a lot of time, but is a good read. This paragraph (in the conclusion of the opinion) is a favorite:

"Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an
activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court.
Rather, 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 students, parents, and teachers
of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal
maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources".

The judge was VERY pissed with school board members who repetitively LIED under oath. He squashed Michael Behe like a bug on a windshield. The decision was very well argued and thorough - the judge seemed to dot every "i" and cross every "t". He constructed a VERY tight box which the ID folks will have a hard time wriggling out of.

I'll bet they're shittin' bricks over at the Discovery Institute.

The entire opinion is here:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/051220_kitzmiller_342.pdf