The Pennsylvania ACLU has set up a blog, "Speaking Freely," specifically to keep up with the daily testimony and cross-examination in the landmark Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, the suit by parents of school-age children seeking to prove that "Intelligent Design" is religion dogmatism in new clothes and has no place in science classes. This site looks like it'll be the best source for what will likely be a long slog.
Among the reader comments on "Speaking Freely" is someone's apt analogy: that standing in front of a 10th grade science class and announcing that evolution is just a theory, equivalent to other worthy theories like "Intelligent Design," would be like opening a 20th-century history class by saying that some people don't believe there was ever a Holocaust during WWII, and we need to study both "theories," or that some people believe the so-called "moon landing" in 1969 was faked, and we have to give equal time to the doubters.
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