Dear Friends,

 I am going off topic but it was too hard to resist sharing it with you.

As you might know, a group of parents have sued the school board in Dover, Pennsylvania for introducing Intelligent Design in the 9th grade biology class. The trial is still going on although all the school board members in Dover who were up for elections were voted out on November 8th elections by people of Dover. 

I was reading the transcript of the November 7th proceedings of the trial (I know, I know. I need to get a life) and came across this beauty presented in court by the lawyer representing the parents. 

The Intelligent Design (ID) proponents always insist that they are not "creationists" since the claims of creationism were thoroughly debunked by science. They refuse the ID movement is the continuation of Creationist movement. They say that its an entirely new idea conceived purely thru science.

Following is what the lawyer of the parents presented as exhibits.

The first exhibit is a scan of a page from a "Creationist" biology textbook called "Biology and Creation" 1986 edition

After showing different editions of the same book, she presented the scanned image of another book. This book is called "Of Pandas and People" and it is the book that Intelligent Design folks are trying to introduce to the curriculum. Here is the scan.

Please see the beginning of the last line. Somebody (probably a lazy person like me) forgot to delete the word "creationists" and instead typed "design proponents" in the middle of it. The rest is the same.

And then they say evolutionists never find intermediate fossils.

Cheers,

Rafi