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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Agape's version of the Dover decision

Agape Press also weighs in on the Dover decision:

A new study released by a leading intelligent design think tank based in Washington State charges a federal judge plagiarized his widely hailed ruling banning the teaching of intelligent design theory in a Pennsylvania school system.
Nearly one year ago, federal Judge John Jones issued a ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, declaring that intelligent design theory cannot be mentioned in biology classes in the Dover area schools. Now, however, the Seattle-based Discovery Institute has issued a report showing that the central part of Judge Jones's Kitzmiller ruling was copied almost word for word from a document prepared by lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
...The Discovery Institute says it learned in September from Dr. Behe that Judge Jones had copied the ACLU document into his ruling without attribution. And since Jones's analysis of the scientific status of intelligent design contains virtually nothing written by the judge himself, Dr. John West observes, the heart of the judge's ruling in Kitzmiller is seriously undermined.

The only difference from the FRC analysis is the word "plagiarized". FRC went with the more colloquial "steal". Both claims could not be more wrong.