A judge has ruled that so-called “intelligent design” can not be mentioned as an alternative to the theory of evolution in public school biology classes. He agreed that the motivations of the school board members who instituted the policy were religious and amounted to nothing more than a repackaging of creationism. No doubt, Dover may have called down the wrath of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, stay tuned to hear Pat Robertson’s inevitably crazy response.
“We find that the secular purposes claimed by the Board amount to a pretext for the Board’s real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom,” he wrote in his 139-page opinion.