"jim rozen" wrote in message
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In article .com, Gus
says...

With respect to any theory, students are encouraged to keep an open
mind.

No, they're not. The ID proponents love to cast this debate into
the 'open mind' or 'fairness' form.

More than that. The court's decision covered a lot of bases, and one of the
first is that it determined the ID proponents were lying about their
motivations and their objective. This may sound like an aside but it's an
important issue in deciding if something is a fraud. It's the same way you
judge whether some program is a Ponzi scheme or a phony tax shelter.

All three of those things -- ID, Ponzi schemes, and phony tax shelters --
are carefully constructed to confound their real purpose, by making them
look like something they're not. So truthfulness of purpose is an important
legal issue in all three.

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Ed Huntress