“SO THERE is a Santa Claus after all,” laughed Barbara Forrest. Santa came early for her, when US federal judge John Jones ruled last month that intelligent design, the creationist challenge to Darwinism, cannot be taught in public schools in central Pennsylvania. The verdict is expected to discourage other school districts that may be thinking of putting it on the curriculum.
Forrest, a philosopher at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, has chronicled how the intelligent design (ID) movement has developed from its creationist roots. She testified for the 11 parents who were suing the school board of the Dover Area…
