Judge Jones & the Dover ID Trial
This year marks both the centennial of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, immortalized in the Hollywood movie Inherit the Wind, and the 20th anniversary of the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover intelligent design trial, which I attended and reported on.
The Dover trial was a modest affair. The judge in the case, John E. Jones III, had little if any training in either science or the philosophy of science, and his ruling was never appealed, so it only applies to the middle district of Pennsylvania. But the media spun the case as a watershed moment in the history of American public science, so it’s worth revisiting.
In some regards Scopes and Dover were polar opposites. In...
PhD, is Executive Editor of Discovery Institute Press and a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author or coauthor of numerous works, including Intelligent Design Uncensored, The Hobbit Party, A Meaningful World, and the new intelligent design young-adult novel The Farm at the Center of the Universe with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez.
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