A group of parents in the Dover, PA school district have taken the school board to court to challenge the board’s decision that requires high school biology teachers to read a four-paragraph statement that notes that intelligent design offers an alternative theory for the origin and evolution of life — namely, that life in all of its complexity could not have arisen without the help of an intelligent hand. Apparently, the school board forced the statement on the teachers, and even resorted to threats, and called those who apposed the teaching of intelligent design atheists. The case has been brought before U.S. District Judge John E. Jones (no jury), and is expected to last about five weeks. The case is very similiar to one in Georgia last year in which a group of parents from the Cobb County School District took the school board to court over a similar statement on the theory of evolution. Instead of teachers reading a statement, as they have to in Dover, PA, stickers were placed in every biology and life science book in Georgia’s second largest school district. The school board LOST the case, and had to spend thousands of dollars hiring students to remove the stickers from every book. In the Dover, the case focuses on intelligent design, which critics claim is nothing more than creation science, but dressed differently. Click on the link “court” and read the first news article on the case. I’ll update as the case proceeds.