Jewish Community Heats Up with Intelligent Design

If Judge John E. Jones thought he could speak the last word on the question of teaching intelligent design in public schools, apparently not everyone agrees. Here are a couple of links, one revealing that the controversy about intelligent design has become hot in the Jewish community (even before Judge John E.Jones' inanity), and one with some followup analysis to the Dover, PA, court case.

(I) Jewish community heats up with Intelligent Design controversy

Here is a link for a great read with a couple of quotes

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=3123&program=News&callingPage=discoMainPage

Moshe Tendler, an influential Orthodox rabbi and Yeshiva University biology professor, urged a crowd of Jewish scientists and intellectuals to spread the word that Darwin was wrong. "It is our task to inform the world [about intelligent design]," he implored. "Or the child growing up will grow up with unintelligent design.... Unintelligent design is our ignorance, our stupidity."

Speaking about the arguments of Intelligent Design advocate William Dembski: "His words make sense," commented Annale Fleisher, a seventeen-year-old senior at Miami Beach's Hebrew Academy. "Saying life comes from evolution is like saying a library was made by someone spilling a bottle of ink."

(II) And for the Discovery Institutes take on the legal aspects of the Dover Decision, here is another link with a couple of quotes:

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=3115&program=News&callingPage=discoMainPage

Dr. John West: “Unlike the ACLU, we want students to learn more about evolution, not less ... they also need to learn about some of the scientific evidence that challenges parts of the theory.”

DeWolf: “… But our governmental structure provides for a multiplicity of voices, including the United States Congress, state boards of education, and legislatures, whose views are quite different from Judge Jones' about the value of teaching the controversy. To borrow from Mark Twain, the reports of the death of the controversy have been greatly exaggerated."