Update: This review has been syndicated via advance.net, which supplies content to several on-line newspapers. Hello, New Orleans! How ya doin’, Cleveland? Are you ready to rock??
Scopes v Tennessee in 1925, Edwards v Aguillard in 1987, and Kitzmiller v Dover in 2005: Christians have made repeated attempts over the decades to give the Biblical account of creation a place in public school science education alongside or instead of the scientific theory of evolution. Kitzmiller v Dover, which pitted the townspeople of Dover, Pennsylvania, against each other in the courtroom, the classroom, the newspapers, and the streets, examined the degree to which the propositions of Intelligent Design are religious in nature and motivation, and the degree to which ID has been successful as a scientific theory. The implications of the trial and its ruling were national in scope, but the origins of the conflict lay in the personal convictions of a handful of small town citizens….
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“Religion Is the Root of All Evil.”
- Kempis, 2007.
I’m afraid Richard Dawkins, at least, beat you to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_of_All_Evil%3F
And here I thought I was being clever. I guess I should’ve known better.