ABSTRACT
“JUDGE RULES INTELLIGENT DESIGN IS ‘NOT SCIENCE,’” blared the headline in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Patriot-News, for December 20, 2005, with “NOT SCIENCE”appearing in letters almost two inches high. The newspaper was reporting on the verdict in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the first challenge to the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design in the public schools of the United States, heard in a federal court in Harrisburg, PA, over the course of forty days. The judge presiding over the case wrote, “We have addressed the seminal question of whether [intelligent design] is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that [intelligent design] cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.” 1
