Abstract
I once had a post-doctoral fellow who, upon discovering we had grown up a quarter mile from each other in a small town in Pennsylvania, commented on our shared experience with, “Well, you know what they say about Pennsylvania? There's Philadelphia, there's Pittsburgh, and there's the state of Alabama in between.” That blunt assessment (attributable to James Carville) certainly resonated when I first read about the Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District case in late 2004.
Highlights
Dover, is a small town in south central Pennsylvania
The Dover school board instructed 9th grade biology teachers to read a statement that evolution is only a theory for the origin of species and to proffer an alternate explanation called ‘‘intelligent design’’ (ID)
Gitschier: One has to do with your background—your thinking about evolution, intelligent design, creationism— going into the trial, your experience during the trial, and afterwards— how this might have changed you
Summary
Dover is a small town in south central Pennsylvania. At that time, the Dover school board instructed 9th grade biology teachers to read a statement that evolution is only a theory for the origin of species and to proffer an alternate explanation called ‘‘intelligent design’’ (ID). Gitschier: One has to do with your background—your thinking about evolution, intelligent design, creationism— going into the trial, your experience during the trial, and afterwards— how this might have changed you. Gitschier: That law was in the State of Arkansas, and it was ruled that the Arkansas statute on the banning of teaching evolution was unconstitutional.
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