Court Case Threatens to 'Drag Science into the Supernatural'

Court Case Threatens to 'Drag Science into the Supernatural': "The lawsuit argues that intelligent design is an inherently religious argument and a violation of the First Amendment that forbids state-sponsored schools from funding religious activities.

'Although it may not require a literal reading of Genesis, [ID] is creationism because it requires that an intelligent designer started or created and intervened in a natural process,' Leshner said. 'ID is trying to drag science into the supernatural and redefine what science is and isn't.'

What the panelists are hoping for is not just decision in favor of the plaintiffs, but one that is so forceful that the Dover school board will not risk appealing the case to the Supreme Court and having a negative ruling with national ramifications.

Scott pointed to an earlier case, McLean v. Arkansas, in which the state tried to get creation science taught alongside evolution in public schools.

'What happened was the pounding that creation science got was so solid that the state didn't even appeal, they just threw in the towel and quit there,' Scott said."