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01/17/06
Kitzmiller Opinion Misses the Mark
I've recently begun to develop a response to the Kitzmiller decision, and I've laid out what I think the segments of my response will look like. I'll be adding segments as I complete the drafts. Your comments are welcomed. The first serious segment is on the False Duality Argument, which postulates that the notion of two main ideas (creation and evolution) are contrived by Creationists and IDers, and are therefore "False". You can review my remarks about how I think it played out at:
http://www.kevs-korner.com/CREVO
Or, you can just punch in "false duality" in Google, and it should come up on page one or pretty close to it.
In short, I found the Kitzmiller decision to be one of the most poorly formulated of any court decison related to ID concerns I have read in quite a long time - and I've been studying this debate for over 30 years now. I have never come right out and said that I thought a court opinion was shoddy, lousy, and not worth the paper it was written on, but, that's exactly what I think of the Kitzmiller decision. Here are my summary thoughts, which my ongoing remarks will support in the days to come.
"Many things become evident from a reading of the Kitzmiller opinion, but this much is clear: it is literally laced with scores of innuendos and tainted interpretations about ID and the value of the Dover Board’s disclaimer. The Kitzmiller court also frequently accepts testimony from Defendants expert witnesses that supports the views of the Plaintiffs in key places, while rejecting or ignoring valid testimony from the Defendants expert witnesses to create a blended caricature of the ID position which is full of inaccuracies, assumptions, and half-truths. The Court then takes the resulting caricature of ID it has created, holds it up as fully accurate, and uses it to show why it fails the establishment clause tests. I cannot think of a more unfair, unjust,
and abusive use of judicial prerogative than this. And to top it all off, the Kitzmiller court has the audacity to claim that it was the Dover School Board and ID advocates who have been on the ‘attack’ against science."
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