Barbara Forrest

Barbara Carroll Forrest ( born June 25, 1952) is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. Notoriety she gained through her critique of the Intelligent Design (ID ) movement and the Discovery Institute. Of particular importance was their evidence as expert witnesses in the U.S. process Kitzmiller vrs. Dover Area School District.

Biography

Forrest earned her Ph.D. in 1988 in philosophy at Tulane University, since then she has held the Chair of Philosophy of the Faculty of History and Political Science, Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.

Together with Biology Professor Paul Gross she covered in 2004 to the objectives and strategies of the ID movement in the U.S. to undermine the U.S. curriculum for the theory of evolution. They pointed to the one by the lack of a scientific hypothesis of Intelligent Design Movement and occupied the other, the religious roots and political ambitions of the movement. Forrest is a member of the National Center for Science Education ( NCSE ) and the Monitoring Committee ' for the separation of church and state.

The process Kitzmiller vrs. Dover Area School District

In the process Kitzmiller vrs. Dover Area School District played Forrest in 2005 as experts play a key role. After the movement had tried in vain to exclude them as a witness, she was defamed by the ID movement as a conspiracy theorist. Forrest testified on October 5 that the intelligent design movement is of ecclesiastical origin, and the term "designer" would be used as a synonym for the Christian God, in order to avoid the violation of U.S. school laws. She has attended inter alia by an analysis of older unreleased versions of the ID textbook Of Pandas And People, in which, originally, " creation science " or "creator" had been at all points where later "intelligent design" or "designer " stand.

Your statement was process- critical, because the judge followed in its judgment in its opinion and ruled that "intelligent design is not a science is" that it " could not solve his creationist, and thus religious roots " and that therefore " the teaching of Intelligent design assumptions on the establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violated ".

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