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'Intelligent design' ruling was a smart move
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Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif.
Date: Dec 23, 2005
Start Page: B.12
Section: California Metro; Part B; Editorial Pages Desk
Text Word Count: 375
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U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III correctly ruled that "intelligent design" is a theological argument, not science. In his ruling, he stated that the proponents of intelligent design falsely assume that evolutionary theory is antithetical to a belief in the existence of a supreme being and to religion in general. The judge wrote that the design arguments "may be true, a proposition on which this court takes no position" -- but they are "not science." To look at the wonders and complexity of the universe, be it a starry night or its workings calibrated in such a way so as to allow for its continued operation, and be told it came out of nothing is no explanation.

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