Evolution judge caught plagiarizing

From the Discovery Institute...

In December of 2005, defenders of Darwinian evolution hailed federal judge John E. Jones’ ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover,1 which declared unconstitutional the reading of a statement about intelligent design (ID) in public school science classrooms in Dover, Pennsylvania. Since the decision was issued, Jones’ 139-page judicial opinion has been lavished with praise as a “masterful decision” based on careful and independent analysis of the evidence...

However, a new analysis of the text of the Kitzmiller decision seriously undercuts the idea that Judge Jones’ decision was “a masterpiece… of scholarship” produced by “an outstanding thinker.” It reveals that nearly all of Judge Jones’ lengthy examination of “whether ID is science” came not from his own efforts or analysis but from wording written for him by ACLU attorneys.

In fact, 90.9% (or 5,458 words) of Judge Jones’ 6,004-word section on intelligent design as science was taken verbatim or virtually verbatim from the proposed “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” submitted to Judge Jones by ACLU attorneys nearly a month before his ruling. Jones essentially cut-and-pasted the ACLU’s wording into his ruling to come up with his decision.

You can the the report in PDF format here. 

It's not all that surprising. Evolutionists rarely think for themselves. Even Darwin stole his ideas from other, and simply rehashed them, then pretended they were his. 

Last month the Baptist Press noted one reason why Jones offered such an idiotic ruling--visions of grandeur...

As the attorney for the ACLU-assisted plaintiffs began his opening remarks, Jones said he was “gripped for the very first time with the thought that I might be presiding over something that, at least in its time, was viewed as not only historic, but was perhaps a newer version of the Scopes Monkey Trial. And I had a very palpable sense, a very curious sense, that I could be living history.”

He said if a movie of the Dover trial gets made, he’d like for his character to be played by Tom Hanks.

Most people know the Scopes Monkey Trial only through highly inaccurate fictionalization co-written by the pedophile Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee. A sickening example of revisionist history that puts Oliver Stone to shame. Apparently Jones was enthralled by the notoriety created by the fictional movie and envisioned one about him. 

It sounds like he needs to step down from the bench if he's going to plagiarize decisions based on what kind of movie they'd make about it. 

Posted by Danny Carlton at December 13, 2006 5:45 AM