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Ärende: Judge nails it.
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From The York (PA) Record:

Investigate perjury in Dover ID case
Judge Jones issued a broad, sensible ruling - finding that some board
members lied.
Daily Record/Sunday News

Dec 21, 2005 — They lied.

William Buckingham and Alan Bonsell wanted to bring God into high school
biology class, and in the process, they lied.

They lied about their motives.

They lied about their actions.

They lied about what they did or didn't say at public meetings.

They even lied when they claimed newspaper reporters lied in stories about
Dover school board meetings.

In his ruling on the Dover case, U.S. Judge John E. Jones III said it was
"ironic" that individuals who "proudly touted their religious convictions
in public" would "lie" under oath.

Yes, ironic - at the very least. But also sinful according to the 9th
Commandment.

And perhaps also criminal. We can only hope that the appropriate
authorities are investigating possible perjury charges in this case. There
should be some consequences for what Mr. Bonsell and Mr. Buckingham have
done in depositions and on the witness stand by otherwise misrepresenting
the facts.

Not to mention what they've done to their community.

They've cost Dover its reputation. The district, even after sensibly voting
out the entire school board, again has been made a national laughingstock -
last week "The Daily Show" aired yet another embarrassing and insulting
piece on Dover.

They have potentially cost Dover taxpayers perhaps a million or more in
legal fees. The judge has indicated the plaintiffs are entitled to such
fees.

The unintelligent designers of this fiasco should not walk away unscathed.
They've damaged and divided this community, and there should be
repercussions - a perjury investigation - beyond a lost election.

The ruling suggests board members who approved the ID policy were
shockingly ill-informed and lackadaisical about what they were getting the
district into. They allowed themselves, taxpayers and students to be made
grunts on the front lines of the national culture wars without bothering to
learn what they were fighting for.

Turns out it was a lie.

Intelligent design, as Judge Jones made abundantly clear in his 139-page
ruling, is not science. ID has simply not earned a place in high school
biology curricula as an either/or alternative to evolution.

The ruling reflects that evolution by natural selection is backed by
mountains of evidence while ID has produced not one peer-reviewed paper.

That doesn't mean God doesn't exist.

It doesn't mean the world wasn't intelligently designed.

It just means that in science you can't invoke the supernatural when you
don't fully understand a natural process.

Judge Jones is to be congratulated for ruling broadly on the matter rather
than taking the easy way out with some cramped, nondecision decision.

Unfortunately, this ground-breaking ruling is unlikely to become the
settled law of the land because the new board seems unlikely to appeal it
to the Supreme Court. Not that we advocate an appeal. Even the judge
laments that so much money and time has been wasted on this "legal
maelstrom."

In short, Judge Jones got it exactly right, eviscerating the pathetic case
put forth by the defense. The district's policy was religiously motivated
and espoused religion, thus violating the constitutional separation of
church and state.

No lie.
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