Michele Bachmann on Evolution

Eva adds: In this video, Bachmann states that Patty Wetterling "believes in evolution." Then Bachmann adds "there are hundreds of scientists - including Nobel prize winners who believe in Intelligent Design." I don't know what scientists she is talking about. There are the usual collection of kooks and frauds at the Discovery Institute. Judge Jones, who wrote the Dover Decision which told the Dover School Board they could not teach IDiocy in Science classes is interviewed in the Lutheran. Jones, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Pottsville, Pa., said fame wasn't his objective when President George W. Bush appointed him to the court in Pennsylvania's Middle District. But he acknowledged that "judges like to decide important cases." He is comfortable, he added, with his new notoriety "because I'm entirely confident that I handled the case well. I worked hard. I'm deeply satisfied that I carried out my duties the way I'm supposed to." The case? That would be Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, in which parents in Dover, Pa., took the school board to court over an attempt to make intelligent design part of the science curriculum. During six weeks in September and October last year, Jones heard wide-ranging testimony featuring legal precedence introduced from dozens of court cases, including from the U.S. Supreme Court. Then Jones wrote a 139-page decision that made broadcast headlines within 15 minutes of release at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 20. He concluded from the evidence that intelligent design is creationism repackaged—not science. Making it part of a public school science curriculum would be a violation of the U.S. Constitution's establishment clause, which bars an alliance between church and state. Some critics thought Jones went too far in ruling on whether intelligent design is science or not. "Both sides asked me to render a decision on that precise issue," he said. "Had I not done so, there was every chance that this same issue would have arisen before another tribunal. "I didn't think a school district somewhere else should be exposed to the costs and fees that the Dover School District ended up paying (more than $1 million) as a result of my ducking that issue." Michele Bachmann does not understand what Science is about. Science isn't about what you believe, and you don't take science on faith. You look at the evidence. The evidence for evolution is overwhelming. Evolution is a foundational principle in modern biology, in the same way that Atomic theory and the period table of the elements is a foundational principle in Chemistry. Michele Bachmann's nonsense is completely refuted by the Index to Creationist Claims.