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  Kitzmiller v. Dover: Decision of the Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tammy Kitzmiller, resident of Dover, Pennsylvania is a parent of a child in the ninth grade and a child in the eleventh grade at Dover High School.
Bryan and Christy Rehm, residents of Dover, Pennsylvania are parents of a child in the eighth grade, a child in the second grade, a child in kindergarden in the Dover Area School District, and a child of pre-school age.
Cynthia Sneath, resident of Dover, Pennsylvania is a parent of a child in the first grade in the Dover Area School District and a child of pre-school age who intends for her children to attend Dover High School.
www.talkorigins.org /faqs/dover/kitzmiller_v_dover_decision.html   (9284 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Smart move in Dover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In Dover, Pa., voters swept out eight of nine school board members who last year required a one-minute classroom statement supporting the competing theory of "intelligent design" and casting doubt on evolution.
Dover schools were the first in the nation to require mention of intelligent design, putting Dover at the center of the national debate over whether the theory is science or religion.
The wisdom of Dover's voters struck a contrast to Kansas' school board members, who voted 6-4 that the state's schools should teach the "considerable scientific and public controversy" surrounding evolution.
www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-10-dover-edit_x.htm   (479 words)

  
 Science column
This is what happens when a small south-central Pennsylvania community defies scientific tradition to become what appears to be the only district in the nation to mandate the teaching of "intelligent design" alongside evolution in high school biology.
Dover may be the first, but alas, others are trying to join this misguided movement to dislodge evolution as the standard explanation for the origin of species.
A judge in Georgia last week heard arguments over a school district's attempt to slap a warning label on a biology text, to let students know that the theory of evolution is but one theory among many.
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 Seed: The Dover Monkey Trial
Dover, the tiny township of 1,800 where they'd made their home for the past 22 years, had been radically altered.
And it was long before the Dover board drove away the Browns, made national headlines, triggered a lawsuit for refuting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and introduced students to the concept of intelligent design, or ID.
The Dover Monkey Trial, written by Chris Mooney, posted on October 1, 2005 02:32 PM, is in the category Evolution.
www.seedmagazine.com /news/2005/10/the_dover_monkey_trial.php   (699 words)

  
 Dover, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doffer is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Dover's public schools are operated by the Dover Area School District.
On December 20, 2005, Judge John E. Jones III ruled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that a public school district in Pennsylvania cannot teach Intelligent Design in a science class room.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dover,_Pennsylvania   (715 words)

  
 Dover, Pennsylvania school district sued over "intelligent design" curriculum
Dover area rabbis rejected TV preacher and former presidential candidate Pat Robertson's statement that, in voting out the school board members who backed "intelligent design," the city rejected God.
The president of the board of the Dover Area School District testified at trial that "she had made her decision to approve the intelligent design by doing Internet research and by a brief reading of an intelligent design textbook." Please click here to read the report.
This report, providing detailed coverage of the current "Scopes monkey trial" in the local paper for the Dover, Pennsylvania area, shows just how close creationism and "intelligent design" were in the mind of the Dover Area School Board member who was the driving force for imposing religious doctrine in biology class.
www.jewsonfirst.org /dover.html   (2184 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Hails Historic Ruling in Dover, Pennsylvania "Intelligent Design" Case
The verdict in the landmark federal case, which was the first legal challenge to teaching "intelligent design," is a victory for the 11 parents from Dover, Pennsylvania who were plaintiffs in the case and their attorneys: the American Civil Liberties Union, Pepper Hamilton, LLP, and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
The judge's decision strikes down a controversial Dover Area School Board policy adopted in October 2004 that required high school science teachers to present "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution.
Walczak noted that the religious strife in Dover was as disturbing as it was predictable: "The genius of our founding fathers was to recognize that religion is so important and so personal that government cannot be allowed to take sides.
www.aclu.org /religion/intelligentdesign/23158prs20051220.html   (912 words)

  
 School board OKs challenges to evolution - Science - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Carolyn Kaster / AP Dover Area High School sophomores Katie Froman and Brittany Cook, wait for their ride across the street from their school in Dover, Pa. While several states and school districts have debated how to teach evolution, Dover is thought to be the only one in the nation to mandate the teaching of intelligent design.
With a vote last month, the school board in rural south-central Pennsylvania community is believed to have become the first in the nation to mandate the teaching of “intelligent design,” which holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by an unspecified higher power.
It encompasses the small, rural community of Dover borough, about 20 miles south of Harrisburg, and a patchwork of farmland and newer suburban developments in several surrounding townships.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6470259   (935 words)

  
 Speaking Freely
Yesterday it was off to Philly for a few meetings, and the trip on the train always provides an opportunity to contemplate while staring out the window at the farmlands of Lancaster County and the industrial lands of Chester County.
Several of the same attorneys from the Dover case were involved in the Cobb County effort, including Richard Katskee, assistant legal director of Americans United, and Eric Rothschild of Pepper Hamilton.
A federal judge who barred a Pennsylvania school district from teaching "intelligent design" virtually copied findings suggested by the winning side in a key section of the landmark ruling, according to a think tank that promotes the concept and has criticized the decision.
aclupa.blogspot.com   (3225 words)

  
 Defending “design” in Dover (Pennsylvania, USA)
The statement, which 11 parents of students at a Dover high school oppose, tells students that evolution is a theory and not a fact.
No matter the outcome of this court battle (the trial is expected to last five weeks), the losing side is likely to appeal and the case eventually may find itself at the Supreme Court, which would lead to a ruling that could set a national precedent for all public school boards to follow.
Masci, David, “From Darwin to Dover: An Overview of Important Cases in the Evolution Debate,” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=116, September 22, 2005.
www.answersingenesis.org /docs2005/0926Dover.asp   (1710 words)

  
 People For the American Way - Dover Ruling Is a Resounding Victory for the Constitution, Students and Science Education
Dover Ruling Is a Resounding Victory for the Constitution, Students and Science Education
In Dover case, federal court holds that it is unconstitutional for public schools to endorse religion by teaching ‘intelligent design’ as science
The court excoriated the school board for implementing the policy, holding that the board had “poorly served” the “citizens of the Dover area” and that some school board members had “time and again lie[d] to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy.”
www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=20205   (292 words)

  
 Dover, Pennsylvania Public Relations Firms - Publicity Firm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Dover Intelligent Design trial ends today
As previously reported in “Defending ‘design’ in Dover,” there are two things at the heart of this non-juried trial of six weeks: “Did the school board have religious intentions in adopting a policy that mentions intelligent design, and does intelligent design have ‘religious underpinnings’?”
No matter what the outcome of this court battle, the losing side is likely to appeal and the case may eventually find itself at the Supreme Court, which could lead to a ruling that could set a national precedent for all public school boards to follow.
This battle in Dover is not limited to the courtroom though, according to an Associated Press report published by the Washington Post (November 8).
www.answersingenesis.org /docs2005/1104dover.asp   (767 words)

  
 Dover, PA News
Several southern York County townships and boroughs are continuing to use the building-inspection services of a man who the state alleges allowed people to move into unsafe homes.
Monday, December 18, 2006 WBAL Radio and The Associated Press A York County, Pennsylvania, man arrested yesterday after an alleged threat of violence and a stand-off with police has a record of a similar crime...
A Hanover man and a Spring Grove woman were charged Thursday with committing a string of armed robberies at hotels across Adams, York and Cumberland counties in October and November.
www.topix.net /city/dover-pa   (656 words)

  
 Dover Real Estate Agents, Dover Homes For Sale, REALTORS and Dover
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 York Dispatch - Robertson: 'Don't turn to God'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Christian right political activist and one-time presidential hopeful addressed the "good citizens of Dover" on his show, "The 700 Club," last night after a short segment about intelligent design and the election defeat of the board that supported it in Dover.
District voters ousted eight current board members who support requiring that intelligent design be mentioned in high school science classes and replaced them with members of political group Dover CARES, whose candidates have said intelligent design belongs in an elective course, not in science.
Dover CARES member Victoria Reiber said Robertson's "harsh" comments will not be beneficial to mending the community's wounds.
www.yorkdispatch.com /local/ci_3206058   (858 words)

  
 Robertson: Pa. Voters Rejected God, Religious Broadcaster Blasts Town That Ousted School Board Members - CBS News
All eight Dover, Pa., school board members up for re-election were defeated Tuesday after trying to introduce "intelligent design" — the belief that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power — as an alternative to the theory of evolution.
Dover is about 20 miles south of Harrisburg, the state capital.
A similar controversy has erupted in Kansas, where the state Board of Education on Tuesday approved science standards for public schools that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/11/10/politics/main1036232.shtml   (593 words)

  
 The Washington Monthly
In that small, relatively conservative Pennsylvania town, voters booted all eight Republican pro-intelligent design school board members who were up for re-election and replaced them with Democrats who oppose the curriculum policy.
Dover is not some bastion of liberal politics; it's more like Kansas than parts of Kansas are.
Dover case has yet to be decided, too--if a ruling comes down that ID in science class is unconstitutional, Kansas' board is going to be in a more difficult spot.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_11/007525.php   (9584 words)

  
 Badger Blues » Blog Archive » More on Dover, Pennsylvania
After the voters in Dover, Pennsylvania threw out intelligent design from their science curriculum, the complete and utter Reverend Pat Robertson took to the air on the 700 Club to respond, demolishing once and for all the myth that “intelligent design” is legitimate science and not psuedo-religious philosophy:
I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover, if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city.
The forecast for tomorrow in Dover is 53 and sunny.
www.badgerblues.org /2005/11/10/more-on-dover-pennsylvania   (322 words)

  
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 Creationism in Dover PA
I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.
We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.
Dover in the International news - Science policy press release
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 The Panda's Thumb: Apparent End of Dover School Board Reign of Error
If you go to the Dover CARES campaign web site, you will find that “intelligent design” *will* be taught in Dover schools, in the appropriate context, which is an elective comparative religion course.
[The Dover ex-school board is] not covered by insurance for this case, and risking that kind of financial loss when the schools are nearly strapped to begin with is criminally stupid.
Considering that Dover can’t even pay their teachers a decent salary, they are in for some tough times, which the new school board can fortunately blame on the stupidity of the last school board.
www.pandasthumb.org /archives/2005/11/apparent_end_of.html   (12170 words)

  
 Dover, Pennsylvania Copywriters - Copy Writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 The ACLU's Challenge to Intelligent Design :: American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania
The ACLU of Pennsylvania will send out an email notice when the ruling comes out to anyone who signs up.
Dover will test whether American public schools can include 'intelligent design' as a part of science education.
The school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, voted last year to require that intelligent design be included in the biology curriculum.
www.aclupa.org /education/intelligentdesignchallenge.htm   (466 words)

  
 The Panda's Thumb: Waterloo In Dover: The Kitzmiller v. DASD Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dover Area School District case was headed for trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania starting on September 26, 2005.
Petition for relevant scientists to be presented to the judge of the Dover trial.
Dover trial that it is her opinion that intelligent design and creationism are essentially one in the same.
www.pandasthumb.org /archives/2005/09/waterloo_in_dov.html   (9635 words)

  
 Parent Reviews of Dover Area High School - Dover, Pennsylvania - PA
"As a former student of Dover High School, I have to say that I was disappointed in the level of education I received.
"dover area high school is a dump...i hate dover area high school...the only good part about dover area high school is their marching band.
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 On Point : The Dover Case Decision - The Dover Case Decision
There was big noise out of a little courtroom in Dover, Pennsylvania yesterday.
After weeks of remarkable testimony on science and Darwin and evolution and intelligent design, federal judge John Jones III - Republican and George W. Bush appointee to the bench - ruled that intelligent design is not science.
Read the Dover Area School District's letter to parents with the paragraphs that teachers were required to read in class
www.onpointradio.org /shows/2005/12/20051221_a_main.asp   (263 words)

  
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