User:FloNight/Intelligent design
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- From WP:NPOV: In other words, views held only by a tiny minority of people should not be represented as though they are significant minority views, and perhaps should not be represented at all.
| Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District | ||
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 United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania |
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| Date | December 20, 2005 | |
| Case name | Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al. | |
| Citations | 2005 WL 578974 (MD Pa. 2005) | |
| Holding | Teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (and Article I, Section 3 of the Pennsylvania State Constitution) because intelligent design is not science and "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents." | |
| Judge | John E. Jones III, appointed in 2002 by George W. Bush | |
| Laws applied | U.S. Const. Amend. 1; Penn. Const. Art. I, ยง 3 | |
