Federal Judge Tells Local Creationists They Didn't Make Their Case For Master's Degree

• Opinion is hilarious, Judge Sparks keeps writing that Plaintiff still hasn't told him what they're complaining about, what they want done about it, even though he told them to 'replead' two times. Toward the end he has to help, 'what they should have asked for, and if they had ..' What is beneath your radar, how much Plaintiffs raised from direct mail, spots on religious radio, etc., to fund this case. There are a couple law firms that brag how they take on church-state issues exclusively, at no cost to the church. They hammer their mailing list to raise money, using the case as an emergency that must be funded immediately. I keep tabs on lawsuits one of them files for school boards, continuing to fight the 'can we pray in football stadiums and at graduation.' They lose almost every time. The school board then gets hammered for the attorney fees and costs of the winning side, the plaintiff. The firm keeps the money they raised, never helps out the school board. Nice racket, huh.

• Was any other rational decision even possible? Even given the occasional contrariness and contradictions of the American legal system? I hope creationists will appeal this as high as it will go in order to, first, bankrupt themselves and, last, once and for all put a stake through the heart of this misshapen mutant called creationism -- not quite science, not quite religion.

• Thank Science! By the way RW, you are quoted in the National Center for Science Education's press release... http://ncse.com/news/2010/06/legal-defeat-icr-005583 Unfair Park is officially a champion of scientifically-based education in evolution! It was only a matter of time before you were recognized in this way.

• Science and logical thinking ftw!

• Illustration? Absolutely not! The Universe being 4,000 years old, it's common knowledge that Adam and Eve rode a dinosaur to Church on Sundays.

• Robert, where did you find the wonderful illustration you put with this article? In previous articles about this story you had some other good ones too.

• @Big Texas, That was the exact phrase that came to my mind too.

• PTL

• Thank God!

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