ACLU
Files
Suit
against
"Intelligent
Design"
By
Joseph
A.
Lypowy
12/20/04
This
past
week
in
Harrisburg,
Pa.,
the
ACLU
and
Americans
United
for
Separation
of
Church
and
State
filed
a
lawsuit
to
challenge
whether
public
schools
should
teach
"intelligent
design,"
which
holds
that
the
universe
is
so
complex
that
it
must
have
been
created
by
some
higher
power.
The
American
Civil
Liberties
Union
contends
intelligent
design
is a
more
secular
form
of
creationism
-- a
biblical-based
view
that
credits
the
origin
of
species
to
God
--
and
may
violate
the
supposed
constitutional
separation
of
church
and
state.
In
my
opinion,
the
opposition
to
“intelligent
design”
is
about
one
of
the
most
un-intelligent
things
I
can
think
of
in
light
of
the
fact
that
the
Declaration
of
Independence
states
“That
we
hold
these
truths
to
be
self
evident”.
Our
atheist
friends
always
try
to
paint
the
founding
father’s
intentions
to
not
have
a
state
religion
as
an
excuse
to
denounce
God,
but
as
we
know
most
of
the
founding
fathers
were
Freemasons.
So
let
me
give
a
little
insight
into
what
their
philosophy
would
be
from
a
Masonic
viewpoint.
According
to
Albert
Pike’s
“Morals
and
dogma”
the
Thirty-third
degree
of
Freemasonry
it
reads,
“Society
, in
its
great
relations,
is
as
much
the
creation
of
Heaven
as
is
the
system
of
the
Universe.
If
that
bond
of
gravitation
that
holds
all
worlds
and
systems
together,
were
suddenly
severed,
the
universe
would
fly
into
wild
and
boundless
chaos.
And
if
we
were
to
sever
all
the
moral
bonds
that
hold
society
together:
if
we
could
cut
off
from
it
every
conviction
of
Truth
and
Integrity,
of
an
authority
above
it,
and
the
conscience
within
it,
it
would
immediately
rush
into
disorder
and
frightful
anarchy
and
ruin.
The
religion
we
teach
is
therefore
as
really
a
principle
of
things,
and
as
certain
and
true
as
gravitation.
Faith
in
moral
principles,
in
virtue,
and
in
God,
is
as
necessary
for
the
guidance
of
man,
as
instinct
is
for
the
guidance
of
an
animal”.
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