# John E. Jones III Topic: [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate|Intelligent Design and Origins Debate]] - **Role here:** the US District Judge (M.D. Pa.) who decided *Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District*, 400 F. Supp. 2d 707, on Dec 20, 2005 ([Justia](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/400/707/2414073/)). - **Holding:** the Dover school board's ID policy violated the Establishment Clause. - **Key passage:** "while ID arguments may be true, a proposition on which the Court takes no position, ID is not science." The court gave three reasons: - it invokes supernatural causation; - its irreducible-complexity argument uses a "contrived dualism"; - its negative attacks on evolution "have been refuted". - **ID side's view:** Discovery Institute has criticized the ruling ⚠️ (not sourced in this pass). - **Appears in:** [[Users/@StephenCMeyer/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - StephenCMeyer on IntelligentDesign.org and the Growing Number of Scientists Claim (2026-10-24)|@StephenCMeyer post analysis]]