The second part of Barbara Forrest's testimony at the Dover trial has finally been posted. It's a fairly large PDF file.
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I think she flubbed the cross a bit.
When the defense was trying to get her to say that there's no essential difference between Darwinism and ID - that is, the "religion" is only in the personal philosophy and so on...
She really should have responded with something like "The difference is that every proponent of ID shares these positions, while we can look at what's shared by most evolution proponents... and it doesn't include religious positions."
Or something.