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Advocates insist that intelligent design is science, but they have carried their fight to talk shows and classrooms rather than science journals, which probably explains their success in the realm of public opinion and their failure in the courts. “ID is at best ‘fringe science,’ which has achieved no acceptance in the scientific community,” Judge John E. Jones III wrote in a 139-page opinion. The six-week bench trial established not only that intelligent design is not science but that it “cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.” Which is why the church-going, Bush-appointed judge ruled that putting intelligent design into Dover’s schools violated the First Amendment.