OK, this is also brilliant - re: the disclaimer that the school board required textbooks on evolution to have:
Jones blasted the disclaimer, saying it "singles out the theory of evolution for special treatment, misrepresents its status in the scientific community, causes students to doubt its validity without scientific justification, presents students with a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory, directs them to consult a creationist text as though it were a science resource and instructs students to forgo scientific inquiry in the public school classroom and instead to seek out religious instruction elsewhere."
Rock on.
The judge made a point of criticizing the school board members and the "breathtaking inanity" of their decision. “It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy," he wrote.
“Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge," Jones wrote. "If so, they will have erred. ... 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 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.”
I want to marry the judge and have his babies....
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I want pasta for dinner. Not a tomato-based sauce. Ideas?
Throw in some shredded mozzarella, diced ham, and a little Italian dressing, wait for the cheese to melt, and serve.
Well, there will always will have been Space Aliens Vs. Time-Traveling Cell Biologists....
...until time-traveling cell biologists go back in time to remove the case.
Wait, that's already happened.
I want to marry the judge and have his babies....
You'll probably need a cell biologist from the future to do that.
You'll probably need a cell biologist from the future to do that.
I bet there are space aliens who could help.
Or, if I were to be touched by His Noodly Appendage....
Oh man, I just remembered that the last time I met the son-in-law that was murdered that they had a 3 year old daughter who is 8 now. That really sucks.
Pesto? Alfredo?
Uh-oh. Schism among the Pastafarians?
a space alien or a time-traveling cell biologist
This sounds like a great buddy movie.
I keep doing inadvisable things with Finder.
Um... hasn't this been the plot of a bazillion bad scifi movies? [link]
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: "I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat."
In 1926 the Politburo in Moscow passed the request to the Academy of Science with the order to build a "living war machine".
Those time-traveling cell biologists never trusted Stalin. Nor will they.
