Playing the Proof Game: Intelligent Design and the Law

By Frank S. Ravitch113 Penn St. L. Rev. 841.

Intelligent design advocates argue that excluding intelligent design from educational and scientific environments discriminates in favor of methodological naturalism and against other approaches for understanding natural phenomena. These arguments are flawed both legally and philosophically. In order to succeed ID advocates need to demonstrate that ID is science and that public school classes and scientific institutions are public fora for speech . . .  [keep reading]