If it's unconstitutional to tell students to study evolution with an open mind, then what's not unconstitutional The judge is basically trying to make it unconstitutional for anyone to have a divergent view, and we think that has a chilling effect on free speech.
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The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won't work.John West
We're not heartbroken about the policy being struck down. We do have concerns about the judge getting on his soapbox ... and trying to stifle debate by court order.
John West
Anyone who thinks a court ruling is going to kill off interest in intelligent design is living in another world.
John West
Chance and necessity don't seem to be good candidates for explaining the appearance of higher-order complexity, so the best explanation is an intelligent cause.
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DNA Cluster-SBS technology has the advantage of producing highly accurate, reproducible and quantitative readouts of the full complement of activated genes or small RNA in a particular tissue without requiring advance knowledge of gene structure or coding sequence. Furthermore, we expect that Solexa's technology will generate this digital data at costs comparable to those of analogue methods currently in use.
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Americans don't like to be told there is some idea that they aren't permitted to learn about.
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