Dover and Darwin

We seem to be all over the place today but this is just too good to pass.

In 2004, the tiny town of Dover, Pa. became the latest battleground in the evolution wars. The result of the school board's decision to require science teachers to read a statement including the specious "evolution is just a theory" argument along with a recommendation for students to read the Intelligent Design screed "Of Pandas and People" was a monumental estasblishment case in Federal Court.

PBS Nova has produced a documentary which not only tells the better than fiction tale of the case but gives one of the best lay explanations of both evolution and science I have ever seen.

It's two hours long but it is worth every precious second. Watch it. Make your friends watch it. Make your children watch it.

Many might see Dover as the highwater mark of the ID movement, but it all it takes for the scurrilous beast to rise again is ignorance.

Watch the videos here.