REL1030, Writing REL1030 Kitzmiller v Dover & Intelligent Design in Public Schools Essay Write a 750 word religious essay about the Kitzmiller v Dover case and how the teaching of “intelligent design’ in public schools. MAKE SURE TO USE BASIC RELIGIOUS VOCABULARY make sure to explain how it is significant. I will attach a link to a Quizlet with the vocabulary, just match the terms with what is discussed in the video as well as what the professor wants to see in the essay. If you do a good job I will guarantee a tip. Look below for the video link as well as the court case in pdf form.
Religious Terms to Use: https://quizlet.com/227338332/matlock-religion-exam-2-flash-cards/ (you don’t have to use all the terms only 6-10)
PDF: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/blackboard.learn.xythos.prod/59442bc14e926/24647?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27Kitzmiller%2520v%2520Dover.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20190418T123136Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21599&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIL7WQYDOOHAZJGWQ%2F20190418%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=27efdf3c82543f26277c905bb1170b5a57edf98db6510d2da4f347030b35780d
Court Case Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0MfwFcOYY What the Professor Wants to See: Topic: Kitzmiller v. Dover (see below) (you may give your essay a suitable title of your own choosing)
Length: 750 words (give word count in parentheses at end)
Format: Double spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 point type; include your name, date, and REL 1030 [CRN] (i.e. the 5 digit code for your section of REL 1030) at the top
Due date/time: Tuesday, April 23, before midnight (entered or uploaded here in one of the formats accepted by SafeAssignotherwise it cannot be graded)
Resources:
1) Film: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (aboveview in window, or click on YouTube)
2) Ruling: Kitzmiller v Dover.pdf Method:
One goal of this course is to help you be a better informed observer of, and a more thoughtful participant in, discussions of religion in contemporary society and culture. The topic of this essay is a recent (2005) federal court case relating to the teaching of “Intelligent Design’ in public schools. Watch the film, above, which is a 2-hour documentary on the case. (I would recommend watching it more than once.) Then write a 750 word analysis of the film and the underlying case. You are not being asked simply to summarize the film. Nor is it the point of the essay for you simply to offer your opinion as to whether or not “Intelligent Design’ should be taught alongside evolution in a public school biology class (you may briefly state your opinion if you wish, as long as you can also briefly offer good reasons for it). The main business of the essay is for you to reflect on this controversy and apply to it what you’ve learned of the study of religion (questions are raised in this film and the underlying court case about defining “religion’ as opposed to “science’, relations between religion and society, religion and modernity, church and state, etc.).
Also included above is the actual court ruling, listed as Resource 2. It is a long document, but if you take the time to skim through it, you will likely find material that should inform your essay.
You may do additional research regarding the case and coverage of it in the news media, if you wish, but you do not need to; the documentary supplemented by the ruling, along with your textbooks and your brain brimming with new knowledge of the study of religion, will be sufficient for the assignment. ANY and ALL sources must be cited and quotations placed in quotation marks.
