The Day a Judge Tried to Kill Intelligent Design

Ten years ago today, an activist federal judge in Pennsylvania tried to kill intelligent design by court order. In Kitzmiller v. Dover, Judge John Jones declared that teaching about intelligent design was unconstitutional because intelligent design was religion rather than science.

The months following the Dover ruling were extremely difficult for those of us at Discovery Institute. Even though we had opposed the Dover school district policy, we were the ones who bore the brunt of the impact...