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My elder son and his girlfriend fly back to MO today to be with her family for Christmas. Imagine them going through security at Portland International Airport.<\/p>\n

“May I please see your ID?”<\/i> requests the ticket agent.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have any,”<\/i> replies Russell, speaking for himself and Shari.<\/p>\n

“Don’t have any! But why not? How do you expect to get anywhere without ID?!”<\/i> the stunned airline agent sputters.<\/p>\n

“Judge John Jones says we don’t have any ID, so how can we carry it?”<\/i> is Russell’s reasonable response.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Yeah, I know — my imagination here is corny at best, dumb at worst. (But it would be fun to be part of an exchange like that!)<\/p>\n

Well…anyway.<\/p>\n

The Jones vs Dover (I know, I know — that’s not what the case is really<\/i> called) pebble is making a few ripples in the teacup.<\/p>\n

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So reports USA (Yester)day<\/a> in this story:<\/p>\n

Backers of “intelligent design” have been advising school boards to avoid lawsuits by encouraging criticism of evolution rather than mandating that students learn about intelligent design. But a judge’s ruling this week has given ammunition to those fighting challenges to evolution in three states.<\/p>\n

In Kansas<\/b>, the state board of education adopted standards that opponents say single out evolution for criticism and open the door to supernatural causation.<\/p>\n

In Cobb County, Ga.<\/b>, a three-judge federal appeals panel is weighing whether to uphold a lower court ban on a textbook sticker that said evolution is “a theory, not a fact” and should be “critically considered.” The stickers were removed from more than 34,000 books in the summer.<\/p>\n

In Ohio<\/b>, the state board of education adopted a statement supporting critical analysis of evolution and lesson plans opponents say were lifted straight from creationist and intelligent design literature.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

So the judge says Dover’s public school science classes can have no ID. Too bad. I wonder if they’re left with unintelligent design or intelligent chaos or unintelligent chaos. Maybe they’re just left with an identity crisis.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it — is Judge Jones saying he<\/i> has no ID?<\/p>\n

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Whatever may be the case, a majority of Dover’s citizens sided with the judge in disclaiming any ID:<\/p>\n

In Dover last month, voters ousted eight school board members who approved the ID policy.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Maybe that’s I<\/b><\/font>ntelligent D<\/b><\/font>emocracy at work, maybe even at it’s best?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My elder son and his girlfriend fly back to MO today to be with her family for Christmas. Imagine them going through security at Portland International Airport. “May I please see your ID?” requests the ticket agent. “We don’t have any,” replies Russell, speaking for himself and Shari. “Don’t have any! But why not? How … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}