Are their jobs in jeopardy just as the Luddites of yore believed? Whereas the British government fought the Luddites, the Darwinian fundamentalists have many in the judicial arm of government supporting them and fighting new thoughts and new discoveries. Of course, legalism embraces stare decisis. Nothing wrong with basing current decisions in law on what has been argued and decided before, but science is attempting to always discover and learn new things, and should not circle the wagons when deep scientific thinkers get ahead of the field.

The court is not the place to debate intelligent design. The place is the scientific community and its marketplace of new ideas. Sometimes it seems that every thought offered to children in federally controlled public schools is unconstitutional.

Thomas O. Breitling

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