Given the proceedings in Dover, the timing of this could not be better. Matt Brauer, Barbara Forrest and Steven Gey have written what is probably the most thorough review of the question of ID and whether teaching it in schools violates the establishment clause. The resulting article, published in the Washington University Law Quarterly, is now available on the web (caution: it's a PDF file and it's huge, nearly 150 pages long). Matt Brauer is a Panda's Thumb contributor, while Barbara Forrest should be familiar to all readers of this blog. Steven Gey, interestingly, was the lead attorney in Edwards v Aguillard, the Supreme Court case that declared creation science unconstitutional to teach in public school science classrooms. He is now a professor of law at Florida State.
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Speaking of which....there is more Barbara Forrest testimony available now.....
http://www.aclupa.org/downloads/Day6PMSession.pdf
And even more to come after that.
Surely this poor woman has no voice left!
Dave S wrote:
To make things worse, Barbara teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University, which was hit hard by Katrina. So in the process of preparing her expert report in this case, being deposed and preparing for trial, she's had to deal with a major disruption to her life and work. SELU had to rearrange its fall schedule to compress one term into a shorter time and deal with the loss of hundreds of students and the gain of over a thousand new students from New Orleans who were displaced. It's been a difficult few months for her all the way around. It's pretty incredible, and to her great credit, that she did such a great job in the midst of all this disaster.
egads... what other field of academia put out journals with 150 page articles? I swear, sometimes I think law scholars are trying not to be accessible.